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Category Archives: Literature

Poetic Gold….

October 27, 2023

 “The poet is the intense centre of the life of his age to which he stands in a relation than …

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The Return….

July 8, 2023

  “It is to obey the command of life that reason finally comes, not through cowardice, but through courage, to …

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The View From On High…

August 23, 2022

From an email to a friend:   Beautifully put, Blaire, for we are all one family, and more or less …

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It’s Coming….

July 21, 2022

I haven’t created a video in over two years now, so it never ceases to amaze me that people still …

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The Decline Of Culture/Character….

February 1, 2022

Thanks for an excellent question, Jon. Why today’s paucity of genuine ‘literature?’ And it’s one I’ve attempted to tackle in …

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Goodbye To All That…..

December 31, 2019

Amy, my Mobile Mountain Hermit’s Hut It’s damp and chilly outside. Typical Vancouver winter weather. Earlier I took a walk, …

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Gates And Doors….

December 7, 2018

  In a relatively recent email to a reader of the Cafe I had tried to describe how I imagined this …

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Aum My!

September 18, 2017

A strange place, this Cafe for sure. Don’t think I don’t know. Difficult even. But that’s ok. Life shouldn’t be …

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Life (Beyond the Words) is ALL There Is….

September 5, 2016

“He is, of course, attempting the impossible—to describe in words (which always lie) that which is beyond words.”—Timothy Leary, forward …

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James Joyce’s Ulysses: 3 Glaring Misconceptions

August 17, 2016

“How can you own water really? It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same, which in the stream of …

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