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There have been many (and the list doesn’t include my many gigs, or the many classical music concerts). The first group that I remember paying money to go see was Winnipeg’s own Chad Allan and the Reflections, Chad pictured on … Continue reading →

(edited reprint from August 30, 2012) Simply put, someone or something either is or isn’t. He, she, or it exists and has being or doesn’t. You’ll recall that life starts and ends that way in the form of presence or … Continue reading →

Regarding the previous piece about possibilities, as Heraclitus pointed out way back when, life process consists of nonstop change (even in things that seem permanent like works of art and architecture–certainly whatever infrastructure, people, and Nature). And so the myriad … Continue reading →

The bests–whether they be the bests of life, love, arts experiences, personal experience, nature, etc.–usually centre around imagined and then lived-out possibilities. There are, of course, many possibilities, but so, too many limited and limiting contexts and situations. Think here … Continue reading →

(the 1890 Robert Bros. edition which first published Emily Dickinson’s work, edited by her literary ‘mentor’ Colonel Higginson and the free-spirited Mabel Loomis Todd, who had a long adulterous affair with Emily’s brother Austin) “I’m ceded–I’ve stopped being Theirs–”                                                                        “My second … Continue reading →

(a poet pondering Whitman gems in a populous city) Walt Whitman is best-known for his long poems, but there is also a beauty in brevity, as Emily Dickinson proved in her own way. These nine obscure ‘shorties’ offer insights into … Continue reading →

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured … Continue reading →

“No pleasure hath any savour unless I can communicate it.” One key model and influence for this discursive blog has been the famous French writer who changed Western civilization writing with the first essays, appropriately called Essays–the height of humanistic … Continue reading →

(photo of William Blake’s “Glad Day” aka “The Dance of Albion”–an image of Albion liberating himself and others from limited/limiting materialism) Granted professional performers need to work hard to make a living, you still have to look beyond that simplistic, limited pragmatic … Continue reading →

information, but then there are those spent in search of beauty, particularly the beauty of/in Nature. We are observers all, ultimately, often recording what we can, of either transitory or more permanent (as in this case) beauty. ‘Tis images that … Continue reading →