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(Buffy Sainte-Marie’s hot new album) (left: signed1996 DVD, shown on CBC; right: signed 2008 CD with bonus DVD A Multimedia Life–about her early experiments with multi-media and new technology of the time) (left: signed concert program from around 1968; signed illustrated … Continue reading →

big blessing.

big blessing. (perspective)

(on an unexpectedly warm September afternoon, actualizing a glass of red on the Banff Springs patio overlooking the golf course) ………………………………………………………. …without progress, growth, success, self-actualization, or steps forward. When that happens, we can stop to savour and appreciate process.

matters.

Was watching the Monuments program on the Frame channel in which young women primped themselves and posed provocatively (a la women’s mag front covers) in front of a bronze lion statue (some kind of symbolism there). Reminded me of how our age is … Continue reading →

and I’m watching the Oilers with the mute on. Bob Cole is the worst broadcaster of all time. He’s the Don Cherry of play-by-play announcers. Danny Galllivan, where art thou?

(Books, reading, solitude, nonconformity, and ‘dropping out from the herd’–all highlighted in Bradbury’s famous book and Truffaut’s appealing movie–are all good, valid alternatives) …………………………………………. …is mere babble often with no significant meaning or content. (This effect is often accentuated by such … Continue reading →

(above: Lake Louise. Sometimes only photography offers the closest means and technology to ‘capture’ and express whatever Nature is experienced in person) There are places and scenes which one cannot hope to do justice to in words. I know well the … Continue reading →

(Union Station–built 1912,one of the few grand buildings left standing in Wpg.) Like a pot of dry geraniums in a North-End wartime window, you cling to life though your halcyon days are done. Oh Winnipeg, your history is dead now. … Continue reading →