Author Archives: rdavies

344/500 ltd. ed.

1 of 350 framed Canada Post ltd. ed. She’s been a part of our life since her first major publication– The Circle Game poetry book we bought back in 1967.

Just finished reading his 1959 memoir of his encounters with visual art and culture in his life.Covers his growing-up years in a reasonably well-to-do family, his first art purchase as a teen, his early travels to Europe and becoming familiar … Continue reading →

“Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-coloured snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s announcement allowing what remains of his unvaccinated base to mingle in with vaccinated Christmas dinner/party attendees. He has learned nothing from his disastrous summer announcement which hospitalized and killed off Albertans. No common sense and no sense of what … Continue reading →

1. Personal survival. As in having 3 meals lined up every day, having income, being able to pay bills, not getting Covid or Omicron, not being devastated by floods, fires, or earthquakes, having no violence and abuse in one’s family, … Continue reading →

about “folks dressed up like Eskimos” in Mel Torme’s “The Christmas Song”. The phrase merely and accurately describes how bloody cold it can get on the holidays so that people have to dress much warmer than they do ‘down south’. … Continue reading →

“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 ignorant bliss. Especially at Christmas as … Continue reading →

the single Hamilton irrationally conceded in the 4th quarter when they could have run the ball out of the end zone easily. Had they not stupidly done that, they would have won the game in regular time by one point … Continue reading →