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Winter City? Frozen North? (fact)Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”or Sam McGee incarnate.Too bloody cold for rats.Snow blown across Xmas potholes.Someone else’s bad dreamrammed down a senior’s throatlike feckless mayors, windrowsor snow-covered bike-lanes.City of a dead downtownawaiting invisible people.Awaiting the … Continue reading →

Bob DylanJoni MitchellLeonard CohenPaul SimonGordon LightfootJames TaylorJohn DenverCat StevensRoger WhittakerJim CroceDon McLeanLoreena McKennittStan RogersJudy CollinsBuffy Sante-MarieJanis IanSuzanne VegaKris KristoffersonHarry Chapin Tracy ChapmanJohn Prine                                    … Continue reading →

(my daughter’s pic)

Yup, it’s all in/about the beautiful details many times. The Art of Nature (cont’d). Follow-up the following morning (-30 windchill):

I thought to myself as I watched the umpteenth Folk Rewind show on PBS last evening, that, yes, indeed, ’60s folk and folk-rock songs often rose to the level of literature and poetry, specifically. I can remember catching a glimpse … Continue reading →

Female downy woodpecker.

think of all the greats already forgotten or who will soon be forgotten. I wonder how many of the following geniuses and greats are actually known today and/or will be forgotten by subsequent generations: AquinasAristotleBachBeethovenIngmar BergmanBlakeRachel CarsonCervantesCharlemagneChekhovConstableda VinciDanteDarwinDescartesDickensDickinsonDurerEinsteinErasmusGalileoGoetheGoyaHandelStephen HawkingHomer (not … Continue reading →

and having your life and the lives of your family members threatened with imprisonment and torture if you don’t sing the national anthem today. (Postscript: the team all moved their lips while the anthem played before the game.) This is … Continue reading →