Author Archives: rdavies

who enjoy what they have.”-Yiddish Proverb

Repainting all our fences here myself one last time. Good experience calling for a variety of skills. Be prepared to go back the next day for touch-ups: important to have a variety of brush sizes and to use aluminum foil … Continue reading →

UN reports 50 million persons living in human slavery world-wide in 2021. So much for how far civilization has brought us.

Director Jean-Luc Godard, director of Breathless, Contempt, Pierrot le Fou, and Weekend.

Still the most famous person in the world today (even deceased) being transported in a funeral motorcade. We are unlikely to see as much attention paid to one person world-wide ever again. Certainly not to Charles, whose reign shall be … Continue reading →

–Macbeth Indeed, 6 people we know have passed this year so far.

in E-Town. Guy curled up to sleep midday on an outdoor parking stall today. (Photo taken on the way to the dentist in Old Strathcona.)

“God Save the Queen” one last time. 1952: seems like only yesterday… At the end of the school day, “God Save the Queen” was played over the intercom. We would dutifully stand and sing the words. This quaint custom continued … Continue reading →

–T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” I am oft reminded of this key line in response to street killings and drugged-up crazies with no other higher purpose to their lives. Eliot’s distinction in choice puts everything into … Continue reading →

is enjoying a certain vogue among the ‘loose screws’ on the loose in our midst: to wit, the Saskatchewan knife spree and, yesterday, the random knife attack on a street in North Edmonton. Writers and poets have long been prescient … Continue reading →