To thine own self be true

sweet peas at this time of year.

As well as the wonderful taste of corn-on-the-cob served with maple beans and a cooler.

There are many sensuous pleasures to be enjoyed in the harvest season of the year.

and people, dividing them and destroying them and his country right from the get-go in his long-term plan to become dictator a la Putin or Kim.

He began a cult, which morphed into a death cult, especially in 2020, with the complete cooperation and support of the Republican Party. They all drank the Kool-Aid as did the Trump voters and followers who, readily and mindlessly, have lined up to destroy themselves (and their families, coworkers, and friends) like lemmings in a Jim Jones-like cult. The sheer evil of absolutely corrupt bloated Trump has killed off many innocent and not-so-bright followers. The most dangerous president ever; the most dangerous man in the world killing everything he touches.

The biggest casualties in the Trump wars have been facts, Truth, empirical evidence, health care, and science. At over 20,000 lies and misrepresentations, Trump has made it ok to lie, steal, cheat, and destroy without moral conscience: a terrible example for the rest of us and his country.

“But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked.”
–the wisdom and foresight of Bob Dylan revisited; from his “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding”, 1965

Better known as Emma Peel through 3 seasons of the 1965-67 The Avengers series. (Which I watched religiously in grades 11-12).

Patrick Macnee will be waiting in the wings to pop the champagne cork when she arrives…

No Netflix.
No Telus fibre optics.
I did not drink the Kool-Aid.

fear always does people in, especially when it overtakes focus, purpose, rationality, and common sense. Much as is happening now in the States as Trump leads the hoi-polloi by their noses toward his ‘rigged’ election. Truth, honesty, empathy, empiricism, science, common sense, and focus have all taken a hard hit which will never recover Stateside if this orange-faced, big, fat, lying corrupt slob gets in again along with his other big fat corrupt slobs–Barr and Pompeo–a la the pigs of Animal Farm.

I’ve also said before that We do it ourselves. You can see many examples of that in the U.S. right now (and even with Canada with the country’s failure to get rid of corrupt Trudeau).

There is no bottom to fear once you turn it loose, especially when truth and facts get lost in the mix. It is the stuff of dictatorships–Hitler, Putin, Kim, and Trump. Orwell warned us, but for the U.S. it may be too late, after over 20,000 lies by their truly evil, nasty president.

“Sucker”–Trump

“Succour”–Biden

In 2012, Paul Simon released a limited edition boxset of his famous album Graceland. It comes with many colorful goodies including 2 CDs, 2 DVDs, a 76 p. color booklet, a reproduction of the legal pad through he wrote all the album lyrics in (their process and final versions), and a poster of the Ethiopian St. George image from the album cover. Highly recommended for fans of this album. (Related separate product: the DVD of the making of the album.)

-opened my bday gift of the ltd. ed. boxset of Paul Simon’s Graceland
-bought 2 oranges which turned out to be from South Africa–first ever
-came across a Graceland t-shirt on amazon and bought it
-talking about my new female dr.–turns out she’s from S. Africa
-all the BLM news on tv; yesterday: out-of-the-blue: getting a video of Elvis singing

I forever fascinated by random correspondences and patterns emerging/lining up in individual and other consciousnesses. The ongoing possibilities of design and fate.

Bob Berube and Kees Wouters. Cover and an illustrated poem from their 1980 chapbook about disappearing rural AB heritage. They did a nice job. Kees did the program illustration for my 1991 August Company play for Fringe called A Matter of Censorship. He also did a run of his nice picture of the Edmonton river valley, 1986.