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 →

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 →

Frankie Valli of Four Seasons fame, now 88! He can still do all the difficult high parts in all 15 of the main hits for a recent PBS special recorded earlier this year before he set out on a long … Continue reading →

via evening classes: the basic steps of Sun Style Thai Chi by the master Paul Lam. (My old VHS which is better than the DVD version and illustrates the basic steps I learned and still use.)