After a federal election, Elections Canada puts together a downloadable file of the results. ( It’s a bit embarrassing to…
barrel of monkeys
Some ideas from 2018’s posts remain unfinished for me. One is the definition of Responsible Government. I think I need…
friday night
Shall we dance alone on broken earth, When our partners all have gone? Is mother’s desperate gamble lost, She made…
what can a poet do?
We have traditionally thought of metaphor as arriving in the human brain as a late-blooming ornamental facility that needs…
the gift of anger
In the photo above, two dangerous animals avoid bloodshed through non-verbal cross-species communication. This evocative image I lifted from Cat…
terrible words
The photo above was taken by paleoartist Emily Willoughby in 2015. It shows Harvard fossil MCZ 4371, the foot of a…
middle ground
The papers call for warfare! “Free Crimea!” come the cries! The papers print that Putin’s wicked sins Reach to the…
responsible government in Canada day
To all my readers, happy Responsible Government in Canada day. The image of the commemorative stamp, above, is from the…
family day
It’s again the Family Day weekend in Alberta, and there are a few apparently disparate things I want to write…
brush with greatness
I have striven to elevate their eyes and minds from the little pedling muddy pool of politics beneath their feet…
