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Habitant French Canadian Pea Soup. Super with Premium Plus Crackers. Camp Maple Syrup Leonard Cohen

“Arnold Bennett died last night; which leaves me sadder than I should have supposed. A lovable genuine man; impeded, somehow a little awkward in life; well-meaning; ponderous; kindly; coarse; knowing he was coarse; dimly floundering and feeling for something else; … Continue reading →

(left: dust jacket by VB’s artist-sister Vanessa Bell) “Here in the few minutes that remain, I must record, heaven be praised the end of The Waves. I wrote the words O Death fifteen minutes ago, having reeled across the last ten … Continue reading →

“The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes. Say that the moment is a … Continue reading →

makes one believe that almost anything good, nice, or pleasurable is possible.

Anything not bolted down or secured will potentially be vandalized or stolen.

cellphone with you when you head out today, when you go to the bathroom, when you have a meal, and when you wake up in the middle of the night!

gets worn and damaged over time.

There are many frivolous, trivial things and people that distract us and keep us from that which is truly basic and important these daze: Justin, Donald, Kim (Kardashian), cellphones 24/7, pipelines, driverless cars, selfies, etc. Much as in Wordsworth’s “The … Continue reading →

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”–Proverbs XXIX, 18 “The time is out of joint.”–Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5 “Common sense is very uncommon.”–Horace Greeley “Man’s inhumanity to man/Makes countless thousands mourn!”–Robert Burns, “Man Was Made to Mourn” … Continue reading →