Monthly Archives: December 2022

-Mandarin oranges -Holiday Tea from Second Cup Coffee-Large red poinsettia plants from Costco that will last into January.

when they get home from work, after supper, or in the evening. During the darkest months of the year, I turn them on about 3:30-4 p.m. when twilight comes early, remembering the schoolboy I once was coming home in the … Continue reading →

Christmas perspective (supplied by a doctor-friend): “We all have expiry dates. Some of us will die today, some tomorrow. Some next month, some 15 years from now. No one gets out alive.” We should never kid ourselves or dwell in … Continue reading →

winter city like Edmonton instead of supporting a regional transit network, thereby stupidly alienating all surrounding communities, and instead of dealing with mushrooming urban poverty.*With the recent murder in the Winnipeg library, don’t be surprised if something like that happens … Continue reading →

Originally posted on December 25, 2016 by rdavies (Christmas Day) The car stopped in front of Ganma and Ganpa’s house. It was dark. Dada lifted me out of the car chair and set me on the snow. I walked to … Continue reading →

Del’s last Christmas was in 1997. He had been diagnosed with cancer in September that year and the cancer and treatments had started to obviously ‘waste’ him, something I became aware of when I was in Winnipeg that November. I … Continue reading →

Apparently, Orwell’s book is experiencing an unexpected upsurge in popularity there. I would not be surprised to see more domestic protests in Russia as a result.Reading Orwell awakens individual political consciousness and fosters a desire for democracy and freedom.

Many people are too stupid and ornery to wear masks in social situations and crowds and there’s the rub as to why the tridemic is out of control, quite apart from the hospital and health care failures–which are a result … Continue reading →

(top American poet of all time) 1. Shakespeare2. William Wordsworth3. John Keats4. John Donne5. Robert Frost (many of Bob’s best in the ’60s and ’70s were well-known, oft-quoted poems) Honorable mention: Bob Dylan (deserving winner of the Nobel Prize for … Continue reading →