To thine own self be true

Steel Plate
(in Head)

Screwball Central, Alberta, Today:
Three news stories.
Wandering River: Drunk gets on a tractor and proceeds to rip up the local golf course.
Red Deer: Guy steals a funeral van with a body in it.
Lethbridge: Some dummy hooks up chemical cleaner to a coffee machine giving a pregnant customer a wakeup call.

No, you’ve not see, read, hear. or experienced everything.

Then there’s the recent story of someone I know well who was harassed by phone calls and, one morning subsequently, got a sealed letter on his front doorstep addressed to someone with his last name, but a different first name. He went online but, at first, could not find that combination of names. He did find a couple of references to an African with that first name. Curious, he Googled just the first name and found that, unscrambled, there was only one other word: Behead!

Not giving up, he tried the reverse phone no. search online and found the guy who left the message was an agent in Calgary. Then he checked Google News and found that combination of names for Edmonton father of a local soccer superstar who signed for over 20 million.

Agent agreed to desist communication. Harassed man has kept letter and hasn’t opened it, deferring to some date way down the road in the future. This is how an innocent, totally unrelated person got ensnared because someone erroneously assumed that the superstar’s father was the same person as someone with the same last name in whatever source was used arbitrarily.

No, human beings often get it wrong and usually assume too much. They can be just plain dumb or go rogue with their agendas. I used to think that most people in our society were smart or had common sense or were literate, but now, no. Those people are the few and far between exceptions. Ignorance is strength today. Look no further than Trudeau and Trump.

prepay their funerals out of consideration for their families.

think it’s all about money and materialism.
Not love, civility, generosity, and kindness.

2 dollar ciggie butt.
14 million fire in Blue Quill.
Now there’s selfishness and careless for you.
What waste and mindless destruction!

Anytime you’re depressed, in pain, or can’t get moving, read this one. Jane is right. One day, your life will be “Otherwise”. You can bet on it.

Dogsitting my son’s female Bichon-Shitzu mix

The 4 year-old who ate a marijuana chocolate bar. Be prepared for many more stories like this. Thanks, Justin for looking out for kids and selling out present and future generations of youth to make a buck.

(the first U.S. edition; passage below begins on p. 236)

(beautifully read by Frances Jeater–the last disc is the one you’ll want to hear and replay…)

From the last italicized section beginning “Now the sun had sunk” to the end of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.

There you will find all you need to know about alienation, separation, consciousness, illusions, dreams, moments of being, connectedness, the preciousness of life detail, and Death “the foe”.

In this section of her greatest book, Woolf completely transcends time and the here-and-now to broad-perspective all and everything available to a thoughtful and sensitive mind.

is enjoying the passage of time.”
–James Taylor