Author Archives: rdavies

Quite the contrast to yesterday’s dismal gloom. Sunny days like this are to be treasured and maximized for whatever. A nice day to be, play, and work outside. When talking about beauty, beautiful days are pretty valuable and to be … Continue reading →

used by Steve Schmidt at the end of a long catalogue of negative characteristics to describe Trump. Quote of the day.

Uh, Quaker, what took you so long to figure it out?

Indigenous people in Canada make up 4.9 % of the total population. Black people make up 3.5 % of the total population. In the States, blacks make up 13% of the total U.S. population. I suspect that many people these … Continue reading →

The best of this remarkable, edgy, poetic American playwright in a nice slipcased dual dust-jacket volume set. (The only other playwright’s body of work that could compete with Williams’s was Arthur Miller). Includes– The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire … Continue reading →

The glorious soap, that changed television based on John Galsworthy’s books, which was released then world-wide and became a viewing sensation for both men and women. The 26 1-hr. episodes (1,300 minutes) were released on 7 b & w discs … Continue reading →

An asteroid the size of a football field which could have caused a nuclear explosion on contact with our planet whizzed by us in early June, completely unnoticed till afterward by the planet’s astronomers and scientists. Kind of gives you … Continue reading →

which I’ve mentioned before here several times is the inability to make distinctions. The calls to defund police are assumed by many protesters to = doing away with police depts. altogether. Black Lives Matter aside, we’d have complete chaos if … Continue reading →

Shades of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. (“Yesterday the bird of night did sit./Even at noon-day upon the marketplace,/Hooting and shrieking.” I knew something was up when, on the Sat. morning walk, we saw two baby squirrels being chased by magpies in … Continue reading →

Agreed for a long, long time.