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Look for the Christie book and Poirot tv series episode entitled Murder on the Links. “Every dog has his day.”–George Borrow Both Christie and the great screen-writer Anthony Horowitz (who also created and wrote most of Foyle’s War as well … Continue reading →

Laurie Blakeman, Liberal MLA, AB: “I changed the world“–after PCs pass their own distracting Bill 10 as a sop or smokescreen for the budget to follow. Massive, unabashed public ego.

to make all the others fall. To cause significant change in whatever humdrum or stable life. Could be the death of a parent. Could be retirement. Could be…

Nimrud. Where Agatha Christie and her husband Max Mallowan once did archeological digs. Killer-dopes have taken bulldozers and sledgehammers to. That place and other UNESCO heritage sites. With absolutely no qualms about mindlessly destroying centuries of mid-eastern culture and history. … Continue reading →

(Northern flicker, backyard fence) (owl ice sculpture, Strathcona festival, 2011) -shovelling snow -doing Christmas-lights drives, in the context of Nature -occasionally solitary weekend-walking at U of A -walking around Hawrelak Park on melting days, feeding chickadees, nuthatches -squeezing in a … Continue reading →

“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a sea are we now afloat, … Continue reading →

except through death or, while living, via extended time contemplating. In those rich, deep, privileged, thought-full moments, individuals learn the wisdom of letting go and accepting from meditative moments of the dissolving cherished ego. That which is likewise suppressed by the dancing … Continue reading →

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”–James Joyce, Ulysses …………………………… (above: found object installation by RD)

(living limitedly and the same, one random, homogenized, ‘pig-piling’ example re. cars–identical-colored rental cars, January, 2011, parking lot of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona) Many Westerners choose to live life in chains, often as slaves to chasing money and materialism, … Continue reading →

“A sacred place is any space that is set apart from the usual context of life. Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”–Joseph Campbell -1- Over and over great green waves pound and crash on … Continue reading →