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(Dwelling in rich multitudinous possibilities, my favorite woman poet) “I dwell in possibility”–Emily Dickinson “I am large, I contain multitudes”–Walt Whitman “A poem should be a part of one’s sense of life.”–Wallace Stevens “Poetry reminds us of the richness and … Continue reading →

Killing, Lying, Betrayal, Using, Manipulating, and Controlling Others remain the worst 6 in my opinion. The last three are especially despicable, common social and family practices.

yes, Understanding, Acceptance, Trust, Respect, and Appreciation. Those key five things. What each person expects, desires, earns, wants and needs most deeply. That, being the case, then close friendship and sometimes even love. (2012: above, my longest, true, close Winnipeg friend … Continue reading →

(bust on my bedroom English literature bookshelf) There are many quotable lines and speeches taken from Shakespeare: “Beware the Ides of March”, “It was Greek to me” , “Romeo, Rome, wherefore art thou Romeo?”, but some have a greater ring … Continue reading →

(the first thesaurus I owned in school) Below are subject-highlighted Roget words relative to positive and negative human qualities or character development. Words were grouped on obvious/majority number of sub-synonyms leaning toward positive or negative. Negative (These 87 qualities and … Continue reading →

(the author of the first modern novel about anarchists and terrorism) Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent is a far more modern and relevant book than any of his others. His understanding of evil, ‘chaos theory’, terrorism, agendas, madness, and anarchy … Continue reading →

Our lives and any moments or situations you care to name are simply a combination and interaction of three things: process, context, and choice. Life and its many episodes consisting of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months is nothing … Continue reading →

Give us this day our daily process/es. Our moments, hours, days, months, and years are made up of various processes we are part of or that we participate in. We are, at any given moment, at specific spots in these … Continue reading →

An Irving Berlin song in Holiday Inn (1942) is definitely a favorite self-defining song in my life. There is much that I look back on now that “stood me in good stead’ (as Glen Kirkland used to say) over the long … Continue reading →

(Mill Woods, January 11, 2019)