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We are/were all blithely happy at least once upon a time.

wants to tear up all the routes and shut down all major and minor routes everywhere in this city at the same time. It is stupid how they have destroyed/shut down the regular flow of all 5 routes going north … Continue reading →

have not been able to accurately forecast the weather most days anymore. Nowhere in today’s forecast was there any mention of snow. And two nights’ predictions of frost over the weekend were likewise bogus/fake news. Why should Environment Canada forecasts … Continue reading →

reflecting many contexts and different worlds that we choose to live in as individuals. (the world of friends: picture fromwhen I was main speaker at my elementary school’s 100th anniversary; with my oldest friend Hugh–we met in gr. 1 and lived … Continue reading →

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)–the top Beat poet (Howl) and a close personal friend of both Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I first got to know his work through a book TV Baby Poems and a rare LP (Ginsbergs at ICA). He was … Continue reading →

The principal theme of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies. Watching a movie with the grandkids. You’d think it was an intense suspense-thriller. But in actuality, it’s a Thomas & His Friends video! Engaging viewing for 5 and 2 certainly and maybe somewhat … Continue reading →

(click picture for larger image: image of two boys taken from a Robert Bateman painting, bought at Robert Bateman Museum on Victoria’s waterfront; reminded/reminds me of my two grandsons)

are those who enjoy what they have.”–Yiddish Proverb (basking in the Saturday fall sun reading the Saturday T.O. papers in Radium at Bighorn Meadows Resort; hot springs to follow)

Pig-piling, herding, and conformity are de rigeur.

(from “First Snow”–Alex Colville) “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.” –Henry Drummond “See it big, … Continue reading →