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O it’s broken the lock and splintered the door, O it’s the gate where they’re turning, turning; Their boots are heavy on the floor And their eyes are burning. (last verse of “O what is that sound?”) Yes, the domestic … Continue reading →

on the dangerous winter streets of Edmonton yesterday. City Council has, irresponsibly, encouraged and endorsed all-year cycling on what are always dangerous Edmonton roads, especially in winter (roads largely uncleared this year so far). This is not Vancouver or Victoria. … Continue reading →

Zooming for Christmas. A sign of the times. “The Boys” are into space and, here, cubes. Birthday gifts arriving: special delivery. Interesting visual with message from tv screen behind.

When the tree went up in the living room; after it had been decorated by my daughter. With daughter. A cozy Christmas with cohort. Tree close-up with  bubble candle-lights from the early ’60s or late ’50s. Tree decorations range/d from … Continue reading →

Study shelf: zen garden, 2 miniature paintings, (above) Leonard Cohen special ed. stamps framed. Study: gold record wall-clock. Fridge magnets: top to bottom, left to right: Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Orwell, Hitchcock, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilde, Sherlock Holmes, James Joyce, … Continue reading →

Pieter Brueghel The Elder’s “Hunters in the Snow” (1565)

Saturn on top, Jupiter below. Taken with a small Canon camera on the patio. (Click image to zoom.)

Just a representation of many fine singers from the present and past. I have asterisked my favorites. Aretha Franklin Ella Fitzgerald Marian Anderson Whitney Houston Diana Ross * Michael Jackson Prince Ray Charles * Charley Pride Stevie Wonder * James … Continue reading →

during a pandemic, without their wives and partners? We’d all look like Nick Nolte’s arrest photo!

and mourning when someone you know or were close to passes, there is at the same time, in the wake of initial feelings, a sense of picking things up and carrying on; even a slight renewed energy in facing the … Continue reading →