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  our particularizing consciousness.” –Asvaghosa

–Okakura Kakuzo

Do not depend on others.” –Buddha

when you think it will never again be green and colors other than white. And then the renewing miracles of spring, summer, and fall.   “Seasons sew us like a thread.” –Richard Davies (from one of his songs)

Personally speaking, I’ve already mentioned, elsewhere in the blog, two very influential English male teachers in grades 11-12 who were funny and very much into literature; they were models and first revealed a potential career in teaching high school English, … Continue reading →

emerged amidst Beatlemania as the top instrumental group of the day. They had 69 charted singles (35 by themselves and another 34 with singer Cliff Richards whom they backed for a decade). Hank Marvin, the lead guitarist, played a terrific … Continue reading →

The End. “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.” -T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”, 1925 “Everybody knows The Plague is coming. Everybody knows that it’s moving fast.” -Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows”, 1988

the realistic 1959 film adaptation of Neville Shute’s On the Beach. Well acted and serious-minded. How might individuals face their inevitable, forthcoming demise?

up while many others are panicking and losing their heads needlessly. With the incoming coronavirus, a person has to stay focused on the here-and-now and make some plans. For me, I’ll follow the Health Minister’s suggestion to stock up on … Continue reading →

beginning with the stock market on its way down, perhaps on its way to a 1929 equivalent crash by the time coronavirus has had its way with North America and Europe. The U.S. is continuing to self-destruct with no one … Continue reading →