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The prompt firing of a 40 year teacher with background in Indigenous culture. In reply to a gr. 12 student who said priests killed and tortured residential kids and left them to die on the snow, he pointed out the … Continue reading →

“You tend to spark the big flame of enthusiasm in people.”

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Flower_Book_by_Edward_Burne-Jones My continuing search for Beauty and things beautiful starts another week….

Edmonton city council. UCP. Federal Liberals. GOPs.

on buying “WAH” and “making WAH” as shown by those dumbass, conformist tv car commercials. These ads are designed to make sheep not individuals.

for finishing 45th in a tournament during which he passed another golfer a tampon as a sexist joke.I don’t get it. What blind, ignorant space do these fools live in? The Golf Channel should be ashamed of themselves, giving tacit … Continue reading →

The one dramatic series we watch regularly; over 22 seasons with 2 different detectives.The above DVD shown was the first season of John Barnaby, played by Neil Dudgeon. The series is set in an imaginary British area with different murders … Continue reading →

(Pronounced mo-beels.) Alexander Calder shuttled back and forth between Europe and the U.S. and became world-famous as the maker of moving mobiles, kinetic art, (though he preferred the term ‘objects’) stirred by air currents and physics basics. His unique airy … Continue reading →

(University Days–left: Arthur Hallam; right: Alfred, Lord Tennyson) “‘Tis better to have lov’d and lost,/Than never to have loved at all–“ This is the most famous poem about friendship, grief vs. ‘moving on’, physical change vs. permanent memory, and obsession. … Continue reading →

Much as I love Beethoven, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Chopin, I could not live without my complete Telemann boxset with its 5 Tafelmusik CDs and Telemann’s exquisite Overtures.