We aren’t in a position to see things from above thus thrash about trying to guess the way. In the Greek myths, this God or that God had mortals in […]

My friend Kenn was right about many things, he made stuff happen, admired him. Gauge a lot of things against an imaginary idea of what he would do. He worked […]

Years ago before saint Jack Layton died I remember reading about his father’s death and the family crowded around him singing. Death with musical accompaniment, I thought that was honourable. […]

Don’t know why peer pressure is so primal but it is. Tried to show the little girl piano a few times, she was half interested half not, not looking to […]

Maybe it is just the way minds operate, imagining problems before they have been actualized and with so much intensity one feels permission to react to things that never even […]

Bb thinks it is distinct.   That’s the Bb near middle C.   The uppermost Bb also thinks it is distinct as do all the other notes.   They don’t […]

Meeting with the Dean. Right away we are out talking each other, over and faster than each other – my kind of rest and relaxation. Last Dean I met got […]

Pictures of the ropey twisted cords the make up the brain remind me of the ropey twisted cords of the digestive tract. Maybe because both are designed to break down […]

Sitting in the dentist chair, repairing two fillings. Cotton stuffed between my gums and teeth, mouth open, drill drilling I need to swallow but isn’t this stuff poison for one’s […]

Often, teaching, you hope people will realize the value or power of subjects discussed but usually it doesn’t happen in front of you, if it happens at all.  Reviewing some […]