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“My whole world’s in an uproar, my whole world’s upside down Don’t know what I’m doin’ here, but I’m always hangin’ around And that’s another side to this life, I’ve been leading And that’s another side to this life.” –from … Continue reading →

It’s in a clearing up ahead, the top of the hill and sea-town far below the ocean wide and vista-ed. They’re up ahead, all of them, those you miss and still love waiting there for you parents, old friends, even … Continue reading →

We’ve seen it all of late in the West. Now a 7-year-old brutally beating up her helpless infant baby brother and some grade 1ers planning to poison a classmate. Hence, the relevance of  Lord of the Flies and The Bad Seed. There seems … Continue reading →

Life used to be simpler. especially for 5, 10, 15, and 20-year-olds before 2010 thereabouts. When confronted with a questionnaire or survey, a person was given two choices for gender: Male or Female. Now a local transit survey offers the … Continue reading →

It sure is. smaller, specific details————————————larger, general contexts On the imaginary continuum above, there are specific, separate details which have their own merit, especially in helping us to perceive and know more carefully and fully. God can be in the … Continue reading →

Him: “Mommy, what’s 8 plus 5?” Mother: “You can add it up on your fingers.” Him: “But I don’t have 13 fingers.”

(left/greenish-yellow: female; right/reddish: male) (These guys and the rest of their flock showed up a couple of months ago and are still regulars at the bird feeder in the backyard. Big fans of black-shell sunflower seeds.)

A typical Alberta man knows far more about and is closer to his truck than to his wife.

Ellen Goodman–a fine newspaper columnist of old who wrote a piece on being alive at the age Mozart was dead already–which provided a lot of perspective re. making hay while the sun shines, and poet Jane Kenyon whose poem “Otherwise” … Continue reading →

the Experienced Real as opposed to whatever Personal Dreams and Imagined Desires