Author Archives: rdavies

‘Thank you’, that would suffice.” –Meister Eckhart

Alive yesterday, dead at 47, today. Like one of those many prominent Russian leaders ‘mysteriously’ pushed out of high-rise windows with abandon. “Everybody knows” whodunit. “The King! The King’s to blame!” Doh. Guess who ordered his death?

(“Mending Wall’, Derry, N.H. farm) (West-Running Brook, Derry, N.H.) Joining my readings of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, and Thoreau. Frost was actually the first major poet I encountered in any depth back in grade 11, fall … Continue reading →

dump. The media is currently missing the point by obsessing about Biden’s age while not addressing Trump’s attack on NATO and giving carte blanche to Putin against Europe.

Canadian golfer steals the big Scottsdale Waste Management tournament, beating Charley Hoffman on the second hole of a playoff. Loved it!! And not a bad big payday for his extraordinary birdie home-stretch efforts: $ 1.5 million.

after returning to the States from China, affecting her at the Super Bowl, does not affect me a jot or one iota. I already have zero sympathy or pity for this egotistical, overblown mega-pop icon. During the game, all women … Continue reading →

was a middle-aged teacher on my paper route back in 1960-61. She lived in a black wooden house with an old-fashioned screened porch just north of Bruce Avenue (east side) and drove a grey Beetle, a cheap car that poorly-paid … Continue reading →

Who’da thunk? Surprisingly, it goes well with Chinese food. This was the candied strawberry/red fruit preserve beverage my wife and I drank when it first came out around 1972, when we were poor and starting out. But only recently, have … Continue reading →

while breathing fresh air and hear the birds singing, it’s a very good day, minimally.