GraceHoper, When You Can Snatch The Pebble From My Hand…
I was a teacher once. I even taught an ex-diplomat, an amazing man who had been Canadian High Commissioner to …
Category Archives: The Hero
Books Are Great… But Wisdom Is Right Here, Right Now
No flowery tongued quotes today. Been falling back on ’em too much lately. The problem with quoting is it tends …
A Wordless Odyssey…(Almost)
CHAPTER 1 *** *** *** *** CHAPTER 2 *** *** *** *** *** CHAPTER 3 *** *** *** CHAPTER 4 …
A Good Place
I’m thinking of Xenon, how I’ve rarely seen him outside the hushed precinct of the Omphalos Cafe, and how there …
Hardwired For Heroes
Do you here that? bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! It’s the sound of the hero’s fall in James Joyce’s hallucinatory behemoth Finnegans Wake. And …
A Knight’s Tale… Finis
After dinner yesterday I slipped quietly out the back door and rather than stop by the local pub for an …
Definitely My Last Black Elk Post…for a while anyway
I snapped the above photo at the central library, knowing there was a post somewhere in it yearning for the …
GRACEHOPERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
Alternate title: The Ant And The GraceHoper Wannabee The busy weekend is over and presently I am driving the backroads …
Inner and Outer Landscapes
My neighbor Rick was born and raised on a farm. He lived and worked the land into his forties, when …
Xenon’s Way
Allow me to stitch together a few of Xenon’s words. Some I jotted down on the fly and on the …
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