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After an interesting lunch at Asian Village, sat out back on the patio, enjoying the unbreezish springish warmth, watching a new squirrel, listening to the different bird sounds against the quietude, sipping tea from the Empress in Victoria. Worked well. … Continue reading →

than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering you’re on the wrong wall.”–Joseph Campbell (Also when you’re not getting back anything resembling the great amount you’re giving, sharing, and putting out for others.) (previously posted on November 18, 2012)

1. What is my bliss? What do I like? What am I into? What am I passionate about? What can I lose myself in/distract myself with? What is positively engaging, immersive, and distracting in my life? 2. What am I … Continue reading →

it is an honest wind that blows the grass across these tombs the sun at noon knows not leaf nor lie geese above V their way across a sky and tell of time for stars and time for hope there … Continue reading →

“Infinite possibility is good, not bad.”–James Gleick, The Information What do you know? What do you want to know or need to know in a given moment or situation? ‘The Information’. You could be an executor dealing with a parent’s … Continue reading →

(re. choosing one’s surrounding symbolic imagery–old Dylan Thomas LP cover now in wall frame in my bedroom) I wake up where I want to be–in a room with plants and a bookcase of great English literature with a large bust … Continue reading →

The latter two concepts which are learned very early. Pattern–I can recall my oneish-year-old grandson playing in the living room near the window with a view to the opposite side of the back window. In both, he saw trees moving … Continue reading →

  (Ferguson Point restaurant, Stanley Park) (One of Fudge’s many noonhour shows in the ’90s, Strathcona High, Edmonton) (April tree, Stanley Park) “God is in the detail.”–Gustave Flaubert Moments of being are those more elusive transitory times when one is … Continue reading →

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil [Austen obviously read Hamlet–“some vicious mole of nature”]–a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.” “And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.” … Continue reading →

(highly recommended Alliance Atlantis DVD with extras) and one of the best of Robert Altman’s career. Gosford Park, a comedy-romance-whodunit. A wonderful playful, engaging film featuring some of Britain’s great actresses and actors: Alan Bates, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Derek … Continue reading →