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Caught a dragonfly inside a jar”–Joni Mitchell, “The Circle Game”

You are the mighty seaYou are the breath that bringsEach new day to me” –the great Johnny Clegg remembered

The city wakes up with the dawningPeople run to catch their busWe almost sleep in, we’re both yawningAnd rushing out is not for us. –excerpt from one of my songs

And I my Robert Frost And we note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we’ve lost” –Paul Simon, “The Dangling Conversation”

couched in our indifference like shells upon the shore. You can hear the ocean roar.” –Paul Simon, “The Dangling Conversation”

–Paul Simon

And I remember the city by dusk-colored lights in September,walking the streets withmyriad strangers,amazed at the stillnessof prairie all around us. We had come like mothsdrawn by this illuminationof night, curious and half-awake.I looked into your eyesand it was all … Continue reading →

Jesus of Montreal (1989) on DVD. French with English subtitles. (Adults only) Earnest young actor Daniel Coulombe is offered a chance by an older priest to revitalize an annual Passion Play with stations, performed at a Catholic church on Mount … Continue reading →

To pre-address a potential heart attack, put 2–81 mg aspirins in a pill case in your vehicle, by your bedside, and on the main floor of your house.

A drowsy fly trembled on the worn wooden window screen. The April breeze was cool and, looking down to the breaking ice on the river below, I wondered how many times both my cancer-stricken parents had stood there, by day … Continue reading →