Monthly Archives: June 2022

There are limits to everything, even the best intentions of educational technology when contrasted to the changing harsh physical reality of North American schools. Poems are voices and, in this case, the voice of a cynical speaker who is hip … Continue reading →

Shelley’s classic sonnet first spoke to me in grade 12/1967; I imagined that our school would be gone one day (And this, ironically, happened for real 5 decades later when it was closed/abandoned, and then burned to the ground by … Continue reading →

From 1990ish. Many poets just write about themselves, but social commentary is a larger view and understanding of the world we live in. Many are the dead men and women of history, especially those unjustly killed by dictators, wars, and … Continue reading →

Two very young sibling squirrels on the backyard tray: A model of sharing for human siblings.

Another year, another pandemic poem….

Jimmy Seals (left) of Seals and Crofts, the popular 1960s-70s folk duo with hits including “Summer Breeze”, “Diamond Girl”, “King of Nothing”, and “We May Never Pass This Way Again”. They first came to my attention in 1970 after their … Continue reading →

Another pandemic poem written in spring. Nature carries on, oblivious to the human plague that has destroyed so many human lives and dreams. The Frost epigraph is a good question he often pondered. What can we make of a world … Continue reading →

Each process is composed of numerous moments. It is the moment which typically gets frozen in camera pictures and individual memory. It is priceless to stop Time. Technology has long allowed us to do that. Not to say that the … Continue reading →

There is nothing quite like going from fuzzy, declining vision and distorted letters of print to looking into the equivalent of direct sunlight–the brightest light I’ve ever experienced– in a surgery theatre! I was briefly (and fortunately) in the skillful … Continue reading →

72 Years: A Self-Portrait (1949-2022)