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Moving Day (Or Week) II ….

July 11, 2026

What a mess!   So the detritus of four decades of reading lie in a motley pile against a wall …

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Moving Day …..

July 10, 2026

  Any semi-serious reader who has moved knows it is a weighty matter.    Books are heavy.    When you’re …

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Myths Are (Mostly) For Men!….

July 9, 2026

  “A fathomless secret of the cosmic flowings that we call Life is their separation into two sexes.”—Oswald Spengler, Decline …

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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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No Grand Thoughts… Only…

July 4, 2026

  No quotes today.   No high minded thoughts.    Sometimes I just sit on a bench in my favourite …

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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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