Author Archives: rdavies

for Don Iveson and the last three Edmonton city councils, it would be the recurringly-closed LRT over by the Royal Alex/NAIT and the funicular as well as the polluted accidental ‘beach’, the permanent ripped-up roads, and the calcium chloride decomposing … Continue reading →

Doh! Ain’t no apps for: -common sense -intelligence -sense of humor and wit -decency -sensibility -personal depth -natural capacity to respond to beauty -creative consciousness -empathy and sympathy -civility and courtesy -gentleness, kindness and caring -natural innocence, awe, and wonder … Continue reading →

Old eyes and an unending view of cynical frost not recalling the newborn simpler days. A story of spring before the long, cold suppression and firm denial of flowers. Listening to distant children play before they sounded like parents or … Continue reading →

The tv advertisers of meds with dire side effects often resort to one gimmick now, simple-mindedly using dogs or puppies as props to sell their wares and offset the innumerable small print and voiceover warnings. update: Subaru has done a … Continue reading →

I will remember him for his excellent roles in The Gathering Storm, The Dresser, Under the Volcano, Tom Jones, and Murder on the Orient Express (unrecognizable!). very few olde school actors left now: Kirk Douglas, Angela Lansbury, Sidney Poitier, Clint … Continue reading →

“I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter.” –Alice Childress, Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights “Love between women is seen as a paradigm in love between equals, … Continue reading →

again today in Katzville. Needed a hot chocolate when we came in after groceries. Since getting in and out of baths has become a life-and-death situation at 70, the old method from childhood of a hot bath no longer takes … Continue reading →

Some famous quotes from great literature: “He who does not follow love’s command errs greatly.” –Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart “I found myself within a shadowed forest.” –Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno “Laughter’s the property … Continue reading →

Like those when guys can make fists while sitting on the floor then use them to raise themselves when getting up. Our chimp ancestry showing through the ages.

There are some human depravities that are too sickening to watch or hear about. These are two of them for me, personally. (Everyone has their limits.)