Author Archives: rdavies

Grandparents and grand-kids. Interesting to be interacting with kids 66 and 63 years younger than one. Keeps one sharp for sure. Also very exhausting for long sustained hours at a time. If you can keep 3 and 7 year-olds entertained, … Continue reading →

“What once was a person is now a network data point, isolated from future profit.” –Mark Kingwell, today in The Globe and Mail

Naturally no one else can find any source or proof of Trump’s dark sadistic obsession. (He mentioned it several times in interviews). It exists only in his perverted mind, but now he’s made it public and foisted it onto unsuspecting … Continue reading →

or what’s a meta-phor? (great reading and resource for poets and lovers of the Word)

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more hopeful: they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.” –Luther Burbank “Earth laughs in flowers.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson “The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. “People … Continue reading →

Astrud Gilberto was a Brazillian housewife, but veteran sax player Stan Getz suggested she sing some English lyrics on the Getz/Gilberto jazz album, which became one of the most popular jazz albums of all time along with Dave Brubeck’s Time … Continue reading →

Death Is Nothing At All By Henry Scott-Holland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you … Continue reading →

I will miss his smile and good ole boy/aw shucks persona. A likable guy on screen in his best, typical work.

His classic 1968 solo recital, Alone, on CD. One of the most beautiful jazz piano albums ever recorded. Highly recommended for the listener soul.