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“Otherwise” is a reflective poem by Jane Kenyon in which the poet looks at her life and appreciates various details and aspects–many of them sensuous–knowing that one day her life will be different, greatly circumscribed, limited, or naught at all. … Continue reading →

Full moon! A found picture and unsent note from Dean McKenzie, The Legend, in 1992. Spiritus (an Edmonton performance poetry trio): Dean on right, Glen Kirkland in the middle, and me on the left). Note: “Hail Spiritus! Its genesis takes on … Continue reading →

Joan Fontaine, 96. Hard to imagine anyone else playing her memorable roles in Rebecca, Suspicion, and Jane Eyre. An interesting lady who could not remember a single nice thing from childhood about her actress-sister Olivia–which probably had something to do … Continue reading →

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, … Continue reading →

Peter O’Toole, 81. He was Lawrence. Great director David Lean had a passion for making films about nutcases. In O’Toole, he found the perfect Lawrence: sensitive and wonderfully strange. Etc.: O’Toole long outlived his drinking buddy–the great Richard Burton, whose … Continue reading →

(The forever possibility) Away! Away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy. –John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”

Dumbass yahoos at Elk Island Park shooting paintballs at traumatized bison. Elsewhere, coyotes being shot at by a father-son team from a helicopter no less. An evil apprenticeship absurdly wreaked on the innocent, unsuspecting. Man’s inhumanity to Nature continues to … Continue reading →

The splendor of two gigantic creative bursts of imagination and their deep warm kinetic affects on a frigid morning soul…(Edmo, Dec. 14/2012)

Mine this morning was Dovie, a cute, very pleasant, friendly young woman from the Philippines. I have long found Filipinos to be a very friendly, kind, hard-working, upbeat, helpful people by and large, from my contacts with them in the coffee, fast … Continue reading →

Fudge was born in 1990 A.D. at Strathcona High In Edmonton. I’d played solo and with several groups from 1967 to 1975, and had put on teacher musical acts from 1972 to 1989, but Fudge was something different with a fairly regular … Continue reading →