Monthly Archives: November 2022

I thought to myself as I watched the umpteenth Folk Rewind show on PBS last evening, that, yes, indeed, ’60s folk and folk-rock songs often rose to the level of literature and poetry, specifically. I can remember catching a glimpse … Continue reading →

Female downy woodpecker.

think of all the greats already forgotten or who will soon be forgotten. I wonder how many of the following geniuses and greats are actually known today and/or will be forgotten by subsequent generations: AquinasAristotleBachBeethovenIngmar BergmanBlakeRachel CarsonCervantesCharlemagneChekhovConstableda VinciDanteDarwinDescartesDickensDickinsonDurerEinsteinErasmusGalileoGoetheGoyaHandelStephen HawkingHomer (not … Continue reading →

and having your life and the lives of your family members threatened with imprisonment and torture if you don’t sing the national anthem today. (Postscript: the team all moved their lips while the anthem played before the game.) This is … Continue reading →

is that you can’t make other people do things they don’t want to or lack the will to do. Re. the recent declining/low vaccine rates–a case in point. I choose to get vaccinated because, to me, it makes common sense, … Continue reading →

is gaslighting. A term very much in line with Orwell’s mind-meddling reality-control and doublethink.

The most prescient writer of the 20th century who anticipated 2016-2022. “The Aran Islands”, in particular, which I read at age 73. Back to my CanLit course, U of W 1969-70. I used many accessible Callaghan stories in my textbooks. … Continue reading →