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“since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom” … Continue reading →

Beauty, Nature, and Art today, this week, this month? If there are none, why wouldn’t you choose to mingle with any of those three? (Cherry blossom trees abloom in April, Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver–always a slice)

directed at Boomers, I note the one by BMW that uses the instrumental from The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City” and the one by Entresto (for heart failure) that uses Sonny and Cher’s “The Beat Goes On”!

lying.

(a delightful, born-loser schnook, antihero comedy; impossible to dislike) Rip Torn, actor, 88. I will fondly remember him as the flawed defender of Albert Brooks in Defending Your Life.

was the  15-year-old singer of the ’60s # 1 hit (youngest woman to top the charts) “I Will Follow Him” (1962), with lines like: “I will follow him” “He is my destiny” He’ll always be my true love For now … Continue reading →

I hope you’re feeling better” –“Care of Cell 44”, The Zombies Peony. Edmonton peonies are doing exceptionally well this soggy summer no doubt because our weather more resembles showery Vancouver where peonies do well.

–Randy Bachman From “Prairie Town” by Bachman A good YouTube video of this is performed by Bachman, Neil Young (also from Wpg.) and Margo Timmins “Portage and Main 50 below” Anyone who grew up in Winnipeg in the 1950s-60s will … Continue reading →

From Virginia Woolf, more than any other prose writer, I learned, vicariously and empathically, how the human mind, stream-of-consciousness, and imagination work together to produce our not-commonly-understood inner life. In her work, I found a successful blend of thoughts, feelings, … Continue reading →

is that you can’t depend on them. They will hang you up, lie, nand ot come through on promises and commitments. You are far better to do as much as possible for yourself (and for others on those things you … Continue reading →