To thine own self be true

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7am, Central Time, Oct. 28, 1967: The Alternate Ending, Nov. 4, 2012

FWIW: 6 World Events That Influenced Me Most–Jan. 19, 2013

Goin’ Back, July 12, 2013

A Call to Poetry, 1967 AD, Aug. 18, 2013

The Trains of Winnipeg, Aug. 21, 2013

Truck, Oct. 6, 2013

Hockey Love, Dec. 3, 2013

Christmas Memory, 1954, Dec. 21, 2013

Del & Rose–Their Last Christmases, Dec. 27, 2013

A Child’s First Christmas, Dec. 28, 2013

Coming Home, Jan. 15, 2014

Crossing Hemispheres, Feb. 10, 2014

Full Circle: Looking Back on an Unknown, Unseen Future, Feb. 23, 2014

Early Childhood Soundtrack, May 29, 2014

Head Close to Earth–part 3, June 17, 2014

Steamy Nights in the ‘Peg, Aug. 16, 2014

The Live Concerts–O Lucky Man, Aug. 28, 2014

In a Previous Life, Sept. 7, 2014

My Last Trick-or-Treat, Oct. 27, 2014

Xmas: Remembering Those Gone, Dec. 11, 2014

Winnipeg nostalgia, Jan. 6, 2015

1st day. paper route, January, grade 5, Jan. 10, 2015

Fall of 1965, Feb. 17, 2015

Way Back Then, June 17, 2015

My First Teaching Year, June 26, 2015

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Out-of-print, Aug. 29, 2012

Distress call, Aug. 30, 2012

Fantasy, Aug. 30, 2012

The Acension, Aug. 30, 2012

canvas, Sept. 1, 2012

How All This Works, Sept. 5, 2012

The Irrelevance of Itinerary, Sept. 5, 2012

The Motive for Johanna, Sept. 9, 2012

Peggy’s, Sept. 15, 2012

The Kiss, Oct. 3, 2012

Allusive Love, Oct. 14, 2012

Desertification, Oct. 22, 2012

Monday at the Mac, Oct. 22, 2012

only, Oct. 23, 2012

Reckoning, Oct. 23, 2012

Webworks, Nov. 6, 2012

And shall I say, Nov. 25, 2012

Turning North, Nov. 28, 2012

Of Missing Pieces, May 5, 2013

So Take What You Need, Aug. 10, 2013

The Spirit of Ecstasy, Sept. 17, 2013

(one minute), Sept. 17, 2013

Garden memory, Dec. 20, 2014

All This Time, Dec. 21, 2014

Six gymnopedies, Dec. 21, 2014

Sacrifice/exit, Jan. 7, 2015

No Masks Now, Jan. 11, 2015

Last Rites, Jan. 11, 2015

Emily Carr gallery, Victoria (better than Vancouver art gallery)

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The Waking Vision, Aug. 25, 2012

Le basin d’ Argenteuil, Sept. 2, 2012

Variations based on Goldberg, Sept. 5, 2012

As Good as It Gets, Sept. 10, 2012

Vincent Blues, Sept. 15, 2012

The Pre-Raphelite Lie, Sept. 19, 2012

Notes on a Raven, Oct. 3, 2012

Speaking of Chagall, Oct. 14, 2012

Zenith, Nov. 6, 2012

Living Large: The Information of Literature, Nov. 17, 2012

Advice to a Young Musician, Dec. 6, 2012

St. Joan, Mar. 28, 2013

A Secret Life of Poetry, Apr. 14, 2013

Rhythmic Continuity, May 4, 2013

Sound, Image, Movement, May 20, 2013

Long Day’s Journey into Night (Citadel), Sept. 26, 2013

Of Mingan and (Henry) Moore, Oct. 2, 2013

Reading to Write, Oct. 5, 2013

Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth, Oct. 17, 2013

A Poet’s Reference Bookshelf, Oct. 22, 2013

The Completely Deaf Years: Beethoven’s Last Works, Nov. 18, 2013

A Consummation Devoutly to Be Wished, Dec. 15, 2013

Look up Rusty, Jan. 8, 2014

Dickens and Life Today: Bleak House, Jan. 20, 2014

Love’s Labor’s Lost @Studio Theatre, Feb. 7, 2014

Concurrences on Writing, Feb. 23, 2014

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mar. 5, 2014

Remembering Mavis Gallant and a Friendship, Mar. 10, 2014

Performance: Of Freedom and Gifts of Self, Mar. 31, 2014

Middlemarch & Integrity, Apr. 20, 2014

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, May 9, 2014

The Waking Vision, June 3, 2014

Speaking of Nature, June 5, 2014

A Graham Greene Reconnection, June 16, 2014

Take Five, July 17, 2014

Canada’s Greatest 20th Century Artist, July 17, 2014

Re. Prophetic Yeats, Aug. 31, 2014

On Alice Munro Winning the Nobel Prize, Oct. 10, 2013

Gould–Gone, But Not Forgotten, Oct. 11, 2014

Hot Jazz Live at the Yardbird!, Oct. 18, 2014

So What, Oct. 23, 2014

A View as Large as Our Crazy World, Oct. 24, 2014

On first seeing an Alex Colville, Dec. 20, 2014

The Living Poem, Dec. 20, 2014

Refutation, Dec. 21, 2014

The poem speaks itself in seven variations, Dec. 21, 2014

Six gymnopedies, Dec. 21, 2014

Morning devotion, Jan. 11, 2015

“The Hero as Artist”, Jan. 18. 2015

On Geniuses of the World, Feb. 3, 2015

Acadia (Review–Citadel), Apr. 1, 2015

This afternoon remembering meeting the great Janis Ian, Apr. 1, 2015

Starting the day, May 8, 2015

Musical Wednesday, May 14, 2015

Beyond Spock

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Burton, Sept. 5, 2012

Death by Salesman, Sept. 18, 2012

Lament for Lenny (Breau), Sept. 26, 2012

My Old Man and the Sea, Sept. 26, 2012

Elephant Man, Oct. 14, 2012

Breakfast at the General, Nov. 11, 2012

Great Soul (Ravi Shankar), Dec. 3, 2012

Ketan, May 11, 2013

A Buried Life (Richard III), Aug. 11, 2013

Visiting hours/psych ward, Dec. 3, 2013

Queen E and Me–Dec. 12, 2013

Joni @ the Mall, Mar. 4, 2014

Hangin’ with Lenny (Cohen), Apr. 7, 2014

Recalling Suzanne (Vega), June 24, 2014

Owed to Trivago Man, Aug. 2, 2014

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget, Aug. 4, 2014

My Last Premier, Sept. 2, 2014

Meeting Miles (Davis), Oct. 22, 2014

From Scona to Ecudaor to 7/11–Nov. 4, 2014

Lafleur, Nov. 18, 2014

Framed Photo, Dec. 21, 2014

Therapist, Dec. 21, 2014

Emily Dickinson: A Summer Slam, Dec. 21, 2014

Victoria, Dec. 29, 2014

School janitor, Jan. 7, 2015

Rendezvous, Jan. 7, 2015

Portrait, Jan. 7, 2015

Grandfather, Jan. 11, 2015

Beyond Spock, Feb. 28, 2015

Popcorn Girl, Mar. 15, 2015

D., Mar. 25, 2015

You Just Never Know, Mar. 25, 2015

Life Itself (Roger Ebert), Mar. 31, 2015

The Great Janis Ian, Apr. 1, 2015

Somebody Nobody Knows, Apr. 26, 2015

A Lucky Dream, June 19, 2015

Thank You, Glen Campbell/I’ll Be Me, June 29, 2015

(Safe Read-Only site–ignore any security warnings when opening pix. Open any one picture and they all open when you click backward 2x.)

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The Poet`s Eye: Vancouver, May 11, 2013

Athabasca Falls (with poem), Sept. 17, 2013

Fall, Frost Country 1-8, Sept. 18, 2013

The Legend of `Fudge`, Dec. 13, 2013

Beyond Deadmo, May 4, 2014

It`s a Small World After All, June 10, 2014

Old School Play, Aug. 12, 2014

U of A Geoscience Garden, Sept. 27, 2014

Radium Hot Springs Lodge, Nov. 16, 2014

Sept. 2010, Neepawa (Margaret Laurence), Nov. 19, 2014

Only In Quirky Vancouver, Apr. 26, 2015

Vancouver Fleurs, Apr. 29, 2015

Artsy Vancouver, Apr. 29, 2015

Vancouver: Rooms with a View, Apr. 29, 2015

Radium Cloudshows, June 2, 2015

Radium Serendipity, June 2, 2015

Gardening 101, June 12, 2015

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View, Aug. 25, 2012

No Promises to Keep, Aug. 26, 2012

Every Sunday, Sept. 15, 2012

The `Dog: A Parable, Sept. 26, 2012

What Finally Happened, Oct. 3, 2012

Sissinghurst Memory, Oct. 16, 2012

Trajectory, May 6, 2013

Spring Sunday, May 6, 2013

Three Horses, July 4, 2013

If You Ever Get to Paris, Aug. 9, 2013

Garage Sale 1-3, Aug. 26, 2013

A Child’s First Christmas, Dec. 28, 2013

Full Moon: Waxwing Dream, Jan.17, 2014

“One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.”–William Shakespeare

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Fly Intimations, Aug. 25, 2012

Pause, Aug. 26, 2012

Fall, Aug. 26, 2012

Farm baseball, Aug. 26, 2012

September, Aug. 26, 2012

chateau, Aug. 30, 2012

Four glimpses from a garret window, Sept. 1, 2012

The House, Sept. 1, 2012

Winter garden, Sept. 5, 2012

Astral projections, Sept. 7, 2012

Free, Sept. 15, 2012

Birdbath, Sept. 18, 2012

since/till Sept. 26, 2012

Notes from the Garden, Oct. 17, 2012

December Shores, Dec. 11, 2012

Mother’s Day Moment, May 1, 2013

Designed by Nature in Edmo, July 2, 2013

Musical Integrity, July 4, 2013

Of Mingan & Moore, Oct.2, 2013

fall (doggerel), Oct. 14, 2013

Darkness Passing, July 5, 2014

Sunday, Invermere, Sept. 28, 2014

Edmonton -31, Oct. 11, 2014

A Vermont Boy’s Christmas, Dec. 24, 2013

The Living Poem, Dec. 20, 2014

Nahanni, Dec. 20, 2014

Northern Journey, Dec. 20, 2014

On first seeing an Alex Colville, Dec. 20, 2014

Framed photo (hoodoos), Dec. 21, 2014

News Item: Jet Vanishes over Atlantic, Dec. 21, 2014

u.b.c., Jan. 6, 2015

This poem does not like Saskatchewan, Jan. 6, 2015

Banff (at Roy & Kris’s), Jan. 11, 2015

Nooner, Virgin Islands, Mar. 13, 2015

(portion of 1973 O Lucky Man! poster)

I am a long-time film buff going back to my childhood and teen years. I taught film studies in senior high school English and later served as a Film Classifier for the Province of Alberta for 3 years.

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Christmas Classics Still Relevant Today, Dec. 8, 2012

Klute: A Classic Film Reviewed, Mar. 13, 2013

Capote: Another Film Review, Mar. 13, 2013

The March of the Penguins: Review, Mar. 13, 2013

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Reviewed, Mar. 13, 2013

Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth, Oct. 17, 2013

Robert Redford vs. Nature: All Is Lost, Oct. 28, 2013

Revisiting Movies: A Top Film List, Jan. 4, 2014

Hitchcock’s Spellbound, Jan. 10, 2014

Hitchcock’s Suspicion, Jan. 11, 2014

Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, Jan. 13, 2014

Loneliness, Missing Pieces, and Mrs. Stone, Feb. 2, 2014

Shoulda Won Oscars–Best Picture, Mar. 1, 2014

Best Oscars–Looking Back, Mar. 1, 2014

Bondarchuk’s Film of War and Peace, Mar. 6, 2014

St. Pat’s: 3 Recommended Films, Mar. 16, 2014

3 Strong Takes on Joyce & Dublin, Mar. 16, 2014

True Film Greatness: La Dolce Vita, Apr. 5, 2014

My Dinner with Andre, June 13, 2014

Eli and The (Other) Misfits, June 26, 2014

Manhattan Murder Mystery, July 20, 2014

Sweet Bird of Youth, July 22, 2014

Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) July 24, 2014

The Fugitive Kind, July 27, 2014

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget, Aug. 4, 2014

On Stars Going Out, Apr. 8, 2014

Darling (1965), Aug. 13, 2014

Time to Cool off at a Movie Theatre, Aug. 15, 2014

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Aug. 16, 2014

A New Kind of Love, Aug. 21, 2014

Best Documentary 2013, Aug. 22, 2014

The Desperate Hours, Aug. 24, 2014

Compulsion, Aug. 27, 2014

On Netflix and Diminishing Quality and Classic Movie Choice, Sept. 27, 2014

Best Halloween Movies: A Personal Choice, Oct. 31, 2014

Hollywood Ending (2002), Nov. 3, 2014

Charade (1963), Nov. 7, 2014

Never What You Think It Might Be: The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Nov. 7, 2014

The Bishop’s Wife (1947), Nov. 13, 2014

And Then there Were None (1945), Nov. 14, 2014

A Voyage Round My Father (1983), Nov. 15, 2014

Two of the Greatest Movies Ever Made in and about the Sixties, Nov. 22, 2014

Who Has Seen the Wind (1972), Nov. 22, 2014

The Fox (1967), Nov. 25, 2014

Civilization and One Other Art Form, Jan. 16, 2015

Boyhood (2014), Feb. 4, 2015

A Brief History of Time (1992), Feb. 7, 2015

Life Itself (2015), Mar. 31, 2015

Altman Documentary (2015), Apr. 6, 2015

Here’s How Much the 40% Netflix Subscribers Miss, Apr. 9, 2015

Murder on the Orient Express, David Suchet Version, May 8, 2015

Finally an Orson Welles Biography on DVD, June 12, 2015

Patrick Macnee, June 24, 2015

Thank You, Glen Campbell/I’ll Be Me, June 29, 2014

The Truths and Wisdom of the Many Famous

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Worth Remembering, Dec. 14, 2012

Oscar Wildeisms, Jan. 16, 2013

Truer Words Were Never Spoken–Shakespeare, Jan. 29, 2013

Nature Quotables, May 8, 2013

Individual Quotes, May 25-30, 2013

Women Quotables, June 2, 2013

More Memorable Quotes, June 5, 2013

Quotes on Tenderness and Touch, Aug. 9, 2013

Henry David Thoreau, Aug. 12, 2013

Risking, Oct. 8, 2013

Trust, Oct. 8, 2013

On Letting Go, Oct. 8, 2013

Ponderables, Oct. 9, 2013

Enthusiasm, Oct. 17, 2013

Decisions, Choices, Oct. 19, 2013

‘Instincts’, Intuitions, Oct. 19, 2013

From The City of Words, Jan. 19, 2014

Some Personal Outtake Quotes, Feb. 1, 2014

Worth Quoting Relative to Now, Feb. 4, 2014

Granite and Rainbow, Feb. 5, 2014 (Virginia Woolf)

V-Day Quotables, Feb. 14, 2014

Concurrences on Writing, Feb. 23, 2014

Katherine Mansfield’s Goodbye, Mar. 22, 2014

Of Woolf, Coleridge, and Shakespeare, Mar. 27, 2014

The Value of Aphorisms, Apr. 14, 2014

On Life-Luminosity by Woolf, Apr. 18, 2014

Prophetic Orwell, Aug. 20, 2014

Some Aldous Huxley Views, Oct. 23, 2014

Holiday Reflections, Dec. 27, 2014

Year-End Musings, Dec. 28, 2014

Assorted Musings, Jan. 17, 2015

Aphorisms, Jan. 31, 2015

Friday: The Day’s Conclusions, Jan. 30, 2015

Quotes, Mar. 12, 2015

Quotes, Mar. 16, 2015

Quotes, Mar. 20, 2015

Quotes, Apr. 7, 2015