Monthly Archives: December 2022

’60s Trio Performers Who First Convinced Me

I could play in folk trios: Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding album)                                                          … Continue reading

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“Goblin mode”: Oxford’s Word of the Year

“According to Oxford University Press (OUP), publishers behind the Oxford English Dictionary, the slang term refers to a type of behavior which is “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” – … Continue reading

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Chinese ‘Police Stations’ in Canada:

Another major Trudeau failure.

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More Relevant and Timely Than Ever

T.S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi”, 1927. A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.’And the camels … Continue reading

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Without

democracy, rationalism, and individualism, Western civilization would/will perish. *The threats to American democracy, facts and truth in America, and the imposition of limited agendas to create rigid conformity in America all illustrate the dangers to the survival of Western civilization … Continue reading

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Most Important Women and Girls of History

Rachel CarsonMadame CurieMother TeresaElizabeth IFlorence NightingaleJane GoodallHelen KellerCleopatraJoan of ArcJane AustenVirginia WoolfAmelia EarhartAnne FrankGreta ThunbergEmmeline PankhurstRosa ParksAlice Munro                                              … Continue reading

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5 Most Important Events in Western Civilization

1. WWI2. Black Death3. Industrial Revolution4. WWII5. Fall of the Roman Empire (source: David & History of the Ages, online)

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6 Greatest Women Writers

Jane AustenGeorge EliotEmily DickinsonVirginia WoolfAlice Munro                                                                      … Continue reading

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10 Greatest Men of All Time

JesusMuhammadBuddhaAristotleShakespeare  Leonardo da VinciGutenbergGandhiEinsteinMartin Luther King, Jr.

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Look who dropped by in time for the holidays….

J.T. and The Gift of Music

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