Monthly Archives: August 2022

If you stand still long enough, another year will roll by all on its own. 73 today. Wearing a tee shirt of the UK dust jacket of Huxley’s classic, which is very relevant these days.

(The classic that took a major hit after a major infrastructure failure: the recent cathedral fire in Paris.) Personally: one’s own body throughout life. Getting teeth, eyes, knees, hearts repaired to keep things running Externally: (as revealed by a walk … Continue reading →

1. No one is, of course, perfect and we are all liable to make mistakes. 2. No matter how right and honest you are in something said or done, myriad trolls will come out of the woodwork to criticize you … Continue reading →

“Graham predicts ‘riots in the streets’ if Trump prosecuted over classified docs” (As usual literature predicted all this long ago; T.S. Eliot famously predicted that Civilization would end with people killing each other on the streets.)

is just plain dumb luck. And wonderfully sublime fortuitous distractions.

is about as close to heaven on Earth as some folks get.

Sun Dog: Peanut basking on the patio during her 3-week-stay here in July before her haircut.

Tothineownselfbetrue.ca has been a handy, convenient platform for recording ideas, opinions, memories, and creative writing. It has been a deep delve into consciousness over time and has included many ‘essais’ in the spirit of Montaigne’s essays. I have written about … Continue reading →

Heavy fire smog has returned overnight from AB and BC fires. It was just a matter of time till we got our comeuppance for the unfiltered heatwave.