Continue Reading Coping Strategies “The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love–love for each other and…
Continue Reading Life Life has thrown us a curve ball. One of my boys had a serious accident and is going through a series of…
Continue Reading Breaking Silence I had to think about this amusingly sarcastic poem, Breaking Silence, by Whitby yesterday, when a gorgeous hike along Mirror Lake trail…
Continue Reading The silent ‘Hood Yesterday I had to drop something off at the post office, one of the few times since March of being outside the…
Continue Reading Silent Performance Were it not for the ‘Rona, I would be in Montreal right now. Just as I did last year, I would be…
Continue Reading The function(s) of silence The dictionary Merriam-Webster gives us a few definitions of silence as a noun: 1: forbearance from speech or noise : MUTENESS 2: absence of sound or noise : STILLNESS…
Continue Reading Silence, in so many words. I like silence, though I am not one of those people who crave it constantly. In fact, one of the pleasures of…
Continue Reading Of Melancholy and Sails “When I first dabbled in this Art, the old Distemper call‘d Melancholy, was exchang‘d for the Vapours, and afterwards for the Hypp, and at…
Continue Reading Of Bloodlust and Shorebirds There we were sitting outside on the deck having dinner. Halfway through, one of us who shall remain nameless, departed for the…
Continue Reading Of cows and reharmonization Today I am indulging myself and those of you who care deeply about music with a string of videos all either created…