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Dressing for the prevailing conditions

“Without contraries is no progression” ………………………………………….. Tennessee Williams says much the same sort of thing in “The Catastrophe of Success”, the essay he wrote about getting ‘soft’ after the success of The Glass Menagerie. Conflict in the crucible is a … Continue reading →

(The hits and songs written by or featuring Lennon) Ask Me Why There’s a Place This Boy It Won’t Be Long All I’ve Got to Do Not a Second Time A Hard Day’s Night I Should Have Known Better If … Continue reading →

Our cowardly, irresponsible PM has not said one word against the illegal immigrants entering into Canada. Silence = consent, approval and acceptance. How fair is it that public money goes to support lawbreakers? How many of these people are being … Continue reading →

It is one thing for Karla to have had three kids and not have abused or harmed them. It is quite another to have her working at the children’s school after she participated in the abuse and killing of two … Continue reading →

Life and lifestyles today–how fast-changing everything is everywhere, all the time. ‘Give us this day our multitudinous daily changes’. The present shocks these are creating are more numbing, distracting, and confuting than anything Toffler predicted. Westerners now walk around in … Continue reading →

It’s the great buildings left behind that are to be trusted rather than the politicians’ speeches. Those buildings are great truths standing, too, longer than most human memories also.

(From 17 onward…) My main ruling passion continues to be: being an individual, “To thine own self be true”, the title of this blog and my general approach to things ongoingly and forever.

The border collie-Australian shepherd cross who saved her mistress’s life is smarter than all the dumb-ass science types at U of A’s Biological Sciences Facility who couldn’t put a brain together to set up an alarm system to save the … Continue reading →

what Keats and Shelley were on about: Sensuous Beauty.