Author Archives: rdavies

Now there’s something I can support, gladly. That young people are active and doing things to help themselves and others. (Not like couch potatoes and terminal screeners.) Long live youthful idealism and activism. Purpose, meaning, a good cause, and doing for others. A … Continue reading →

The world, that is. Life experience, fairly often. Many people. As Johnny Clegg put it, “It’s a cruel, crazy, beautiful world.” Hard to dispute as we still await the arrival of The Big One from outer space or some moron … Continue reading →

“Take your place on the great mandala As it moves through your brief moment of time” –Peter Yarrow/Mary Travers/Albert B. Grossman. “The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)”, as sung by Peter, Paul and Mary

Edmonton Journal‘s 5-month investigation resulting in a week of daily reports on AB’s crumbling hospitals. A must-read for any AB adult and child. What several decades of PC negligence and public pipedream voting for Big Brother has got us healthcare-wise. Zero … Continue reading →

A book–The Secret Life of Squirrels by Nancy Rose, a Canadian.

The day that gives the lie that buying screens is more important than eating properly, exercising (rather than sedentary lifestyles with junk food), live in-person physical presence with others, being in touch with oneself and what one really thinks and … Continue reading →

(–Walt Whitman) There are many ways to approach life and some people do not stop working or being busy until they encounter serious illness, have a major crisis or near-death experience, or die. I believe that life is more than … Continue reading →

(My Winnipeg university folk group Clover, circa 1969, YMHA, in concert. Left-handed playing-strings-upside-down-on-right-handed-12 -tring-guitars Wayne, left, became a significant computer programmer for the City of Calgary from the mid-70s on; Chris, right, became a significant obstetrics doctor in Poe’s city of Baltimore; Sandy, then in high … Continue reading →

In many ways, context does turn out to be what one generally lives with and/or creates through personal choices for oneself. That is, the personal contexts that one brings into being. I have found, though, that many contexts–relationships, work, even … Continue reading →

SPIRITUS–Glen Kirkland, Dean McKenzie, and Richard Davies (all senior high ELA teacher-poets (We published two editions of this chapbook. We were on C.B.C. Radio reading our famous 3-in-1 poems, breaking up Marion Coomey. Cover was done by Kees Wouters, a former … Continue reading →