Moving Day (Still?!) ….
Symphony in the parc… So furniture is still making its way between old and new apartments and the tight …
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Moving Day (Or Week) II ….
What a mess! So the detritus of four decades of reading lie in a motley pile against a wall …
Moving Day …..
Any semi-serious reader who has moved knows it is a weighty matter. Books are heavy. When you’re …
Myths Are (Mostly) For Men!….
“A fathomless secret of the cosmic flowings that we call Life is their separation into two sexes.”—Oswald Spengler, Decline …
A Quiet Haven….
Call us lone wolves. Sometimes Steppenwolves. Lately I’ve come across a new term: Sigma males. We’re not …
“Like Lambs To The Intellectual Slaughter…”
Fatigue and ruin Recently I’ve been boning up on my Canadiana with a short book on the history of …
Fantasyland….
Imagine an environment, the town or city you call home, in which your best self is constantly being appealed …
The Power Of Myth II….
“Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were …
Ephemera….
On the bench next to me sat Jean-Marc who I have known for nearly three years. He was reading …
The End Of An Epoch… And The Birth Of….?
The West, born of Germanic and then Viking marauders, took to the high seas in the fifteenth century. The …
Omphalos Cafe 