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Simplicity II….

July 8, 2026

  “Feeling summertime sadness? Seasonal affective disorder is not just a winter thing.”    “Are you polychronic or monochronic? Struggling …

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Simplicity….

July 7, 2026

  We construct our own complexity cages and then obediently step inside and close the door on ourselves. Once inside …

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A Quiet Haven….

July 6, 2026

  Call us lone wolves. Sometimes Steppenwolves.    Lately I’ve come across a new term: Sigma males.    We’re not …

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Have You A Song to Sing?….

July 5, 2026

  You hear Saint Louis before you see him. He wanders the lower Plateau with his dog Cookie singing his …

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“Like Lambs To The Intellectual Slaughter…”

July 3, 2026

Fatigue and ruin   Recently I’ve been boning up on my Canadiana with a short book on the history of …

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Nostalgia! … Or Arrested Development?

July 2, 2026

  The year must have been ‘78 or ‘79 and I was fifteen years old.    The costumed and face-painted …

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Fantasyland….

July 1, 2026

  Imagine an environment, the town or city you call home, in which your best self is constantly being appealed …

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Solitude….

June 30, 2026

  “—But I have need of solitude, that is to say recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free …

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The Power Of Myth II….

June 29, 2026

  “Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were …

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Ephemera….

June 28, 2026

  On the bench next to me sat Jean-Marc who I have known for nearly three years. He was reading …

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