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This morning perky Suzanne was saying that “a low in the U.S. is pushing instability into Canada”. Must be thinking of the trade talks with Trump.

(a favorite preferred/projected (self-)image) The possibilities we dream of come truest in our imaginations. Occasionally we are lucky and some of these dreams transition to physical reality. Then they assume an even greater transformative power. It is also in our … Continue reading →

(my autographed copy) (The ending of Timebends, Arthur Miller’s autobiography. He concludes with an image of wolves on his Connecticut rural property.) “In the darkness out there they see my light and pause, muzzles lifted, wondering who I am and … Continue reading →

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

“Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.” “There is a coherence in things, a stability; something…is immune from change, and … Continue reading →

(a fine adaptation of a great novel, the kind most people no longer read or could care less about) Unconventional individual personal choices abound in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Dorothea refuses to limited by her dead husband’s will and gives up … Continue reading →

is a matter of survival these days in Edmonton. The bugs are bad where there’s shade, gardens, and bushes. They’re also bad when clouds obscure the sun. And they are bad in the early morning and evenings.

What’s the point? Water and mud shooting onto your back and pants on wet days or wet terrain.

A very curious newbie.

Those oh-so-cool guys who slide their cars in front of you into your lane and at intersections.