Monthly Archives: May 2022

2 home-made butter pecan cakes by daughter: 1 with sugar, 1 with sweetener.Remnants of Jackson Triggs Chardonnay and delivered KFC in background. (Shakespeare kleenex box.) A fun day.

  One of my favorite annual tv shows remains the New Year’s and summer Vienna Philharmonic concerts on PBS, showing Vienna and its Danube environs. Yes, if I could have lived elsewhere in my adult years, Vienna strikes me as … Continue reading →

My own bent in comics was pretty much limited to the Classics Illustrated series in the mid to late 1950s. As an adult, one of my bucket-list items was to own a copy of each title in the series, including … Continue reading →

in 1967 and still does today: After reading the first stanza, I recognized that, first and foremost, Wordsworth was writing about the “beauteous forms” of Nature (the first time I’d ever heard that wonderful adjective). And then, I thought back, … Continue reading →

April pruning (clematis: post-war)

“The cultural revolution that occurred in 1960s England.” Promises a lot, but average/mediocre overall. Starts off well enough about the drab malaise and poverty of England after WWII and the limited opportunities then for creative people. Gradually gets into the … Continue reading →

autonomous persons with equal rights to men by the GOPs, expect them to also be eventually denied the vote.

Life was often described as a dream or as being dream-like by Shakespeare. Even with our varying degrees of individual consciousness, we often drift/float through crowd scenes or moments in ‘a haze’ or not terribly alert/focused state. Amidst this poem, … Continue reading →