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How'd she get in there? Then out?

5/2/2017

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After plunking on the computer a while, I wandered out to say hi to Linda. But she wasn’t in the living room, or the kitchen. Or the bedroom or bathroom. But I had definitely heard some sound coming from somewhere, so I was sure she hadn’t gone out. The only other place she could be was out on the balcony. But she wasn’t there either. So I gave up and called her. 

“Yeah?”

Hard at work on some obscure thing. I never did find out what. Part of her new spring balcony design.




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Before the leaves

4/26/2017

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Just before the leaves popped out, Linda and I found this beautiful bit of nature south of Wallacetown. And right away she discovered a big patch of very-rare burgundy trilliums! She was so happy! Trilliums are one of her favourite flowers.
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إبراهيم أشعياء عوض burgundy Trilliums are a welcome change from the plain white ones!

Heather Roberts Cadsby Lovely! They are known as wakerobin and are, to put it politely, ill-scented.

Stan Burfield Ah. Thanks. I'll tell her.
Stan Burfield Here's where we were if anyone wants to check out the Trilliums or the trees or both. https://www.google.ca/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4...

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New Year's Day, 2017.

1/1/2017

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 Some of Linda's Christmas decorations 

12/31/2016

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Linda and her Christmas display

12/14/2016

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​Linda finished her balcony Christmas display just before the snow came a couple days ago. She likes it out on the balcony so she can lay on the couch and look out at it all lit up in the evening. And the snow finishes it off just right.

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Brandi Michielsen Wonderful idea, displaying a winter wonderland on the balcony. Plus it saves the cleanup in the living area if pine needles / fir tree branches are involved in the decorations.
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Linda made whole wheat scones.

12/12/2016

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Tester at work. 

Pass.

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Jenny Getsinger Nice benches. Did Linda make the cushion covers too?
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Stan Burfield Yes, and the buffet.
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Jenny Getsinger Lovely!
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Stan Burfield She's always puttering on things.
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Jf Pickersgill My wife has never said the following to me but she did think it was hilarious when a comedian said it on T.V. "My wife walked into the room while I was watching a football game and showed me some food she had in her hand while saying, 'Here. Taste this. I think it might be off.'"
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Stan Burfield Ha ha. It sounds awfully familiar somehow. But I can vouch for these scones. They were definitely on. :)
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Old photos

11/27/2016

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My Vancouver friend Gord McCaw just gave me an incredible inspiration via a post of his on looking at a photographic display in the Vancouver Art Gallery. (Gord is a photographer of note himself.) I have all these ancient negatives from homestead days on the prairie and in log-cabin country up in the North. They're just sitting there because nobody can relate to them, I thought, because the people in the photos are all dead and there are very few descendants who care anymore. But what I can do is look carefully at each one for visual, human, historical, artistic content, and crop them to help emphasize it. It had never occurred to me before that I could actually crop them! https://www.facebook.com/gord.mccaw/posts/10153921529096356
Photo: My dad plowing with the Case steam tractor before he went blind.
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Seeing Linda off

11/26/2016

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Seeing Linda off to the train to visit her sister in Burlington. I'm a bit anxious. Woke in the middle of the night to a dream of fire. It was just a dream.
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Cindy Cameron Napper Great photo of the 2 of you Linda your hair looks great short
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I really like this photo. Linda in first day of snow. 

11/25/2016

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Balcony finished?

9/23/2016

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I think Linda is finally approaching finished on the balcony. She made the bench from an old bed frame that someone threw out. The mirror was her bedroom mirror. She built the railing from Home Depot wood. The couch cover is an original old vintage chenille bed spread. The plants are Mandevilla. 


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Cambridge N Calvin Keenan I love Linda's Magical touch 💜
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Linda Eva Williams How incredibly cozy and inviting-looking.
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Meredith Moeckel Really beautiful! She could make a lot of money just suggesting/consulting to others. And won't the Mandevilles turn into a vine? Please tell Linda BRAVO from me! You're a lucky guy! :)
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Stan Burfield I will. And I think a vine growing all over everything with those beautiful flowers is what she has in mind.
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Sue McMaster Beautiful!
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Tina Pickard Lovely..
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Sharon Berg That is truly lovely... and inviting. She has enriched your surroundings!
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Karen Troxler I 💘 that she built these things herself! Talented lady!
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Stan Burfield She struggles at it. She's not a natural carpenter by any means, but she's getting the hang of it slowly.
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Peggy Roffey Really lovely!
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Linda relaxing after having completed a very strenuous task, something to do with her toes.

9/23/2016

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Debbie-David Currie Oh how I would love to be doing that right now! You deserve it Linda!
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Cambridge N Calvin Keenan Loving your honey haven Linda , have. A great evening 🌹
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Meredith Moeckel Good for Linda! And this is a different view from the usual pics you post from your serenely decorated balcony! :)
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We'll see...

8/28/2016

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We'll see
Breakfast out in the morning air,
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a fresh day.


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Linda and I biked down to Springbank Park's Rose Garden. I enjoyed her enjoying what makes her happy.

7/18/2016

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Edward Hopper: Woman in Train Compartment

6/21/2016

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A perfect day to stroll in the woods. 

6/16/2016

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The most shocking coincidences happen to me all the time!

5/24/2016

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Yesterday I emailed Frank Davey asking how he's doing these fine days, only to be told he was in Budapest, and would be in Vienna today, then on to other fabulous places. I said I envied him. Well, today at some point I looked at my emails and there was this photo he had just taken from his hotel room. That's the Danube River down below. So I said, "Nice view!! I guess you must have heard the Blue Danube Waltz a few times by now." Then I got up and turned the TV on. And there was a movie playing called The Great Waltz, a 1972 biopic of Strauss! It was about 20 minutes into the movie. And within 2 or 3 minutes of turning on the TV, we were in the great ballroom, and, for the first time in the movie, The Blue Danube was being played, with Strauss on violin!
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Cambridge N Calvin Keenan That's magical 💜
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Aldous Richards I love synchronicities like that. They seem to stop time for a second, just so you can appreciate the magic. smile emoticon
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Silvia Palacios Eso es maravilloso
That's wonderful

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Spring in February

2/20/2016

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May it last, but without a lot of killer frosts destroying all the new buds. Photo in London, Ont.
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Time warp!

2/4/2016

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35 years later, my old Vancouver friend Gord posted the photo (the one in the previous post below) of me wearing the same sweater I was wearing just now as I sat in front of my computer when that earlier me in the same sweater popped up on the screen! I looked down at my sleeves and back at the screen astonished. It was like my young self and I were sitting at the same table in some kind of time warp!

Also, it's weird how long this sweater has lasted. I wear it every winter. I bought it on my 7-month backpacking trip in 1981. I was thumping along into the last cold month of the trip, just inside Northern Ontario (walking from BC) and I was beginning to freeze at night in my tent, trying to sleep shivering. I finally came to a little town, went straight into its clothing store, bought this, and wore it all day and all night until the snows came for good near Thunder Bay. This was 3 years before Gord took the photo in the cafe.

Thirty-five years later, now basking in Linda's decore and company, I'm still wearing my favourite sweater. The tag has long since disappeared, all the buttons have been replaced, but there are no holes, rips, or unravellings and it's just as warm as it ever was.
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Linda Eva Williams And stylish! (Seriously: my fashion conscious daughter told me so)
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Stan Burfield My God. That's a shock. Okay, I guess then I'll have to make this my winter uniform at the open mic! Thank her for the advice.
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Meredith Moeckel You look absolutely marvelous!
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Al Broudy That's a fine sweater. You know, Stan, I don't know if I ever told you this, but I SAW you on that trip of yours. I was team driving with a real bastard name of Al "Fat" Thompson. We were eastbound somewhere in Manitoba, and there, in the right side...See more
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Stan Burfield WOW!!!! Ha ha. You would have been the second person I actually knew whom I met along that hike. I had figured that the chances are I would bump into one person I knew. But it didn't happen until the last day of my THIRD of three trips, hiking, canoeing, and bicycling. It was in St. John's NFLD, in a corner store, one of my old teachers in journalism school!! You would have been one too many, which is the real reason you couldn't pull that truck over and say hi. ....But wow, that's incredible. I remember the walking stick. Somebody had just thrown it out and I found it as I walked, one of those fairly impractical but beautiful ones, with a heavy brass knob at the top so it swings wonderfully. I actually took a photo of it. I stopped for a rest, my back against my sleeping bag, legs out in the grass and flowers, with the walking stick laying there. I'll try to find it after the open mic tomorrow. Wonderful story about you guys in the truck too!
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Meredith Moeckel Really incredibly coincidental!
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Stan Burfield You're not kidding. You want an even more incredible coincidence, by far? It's in my new posting, about my big birthday surprise.
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Meredith Moeckel I'll be sure to look for it --- if not tonight then tomorrow when I'm on my laptop! HUGS smile emoticon
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Cambridge Keenan That's amazing ! De ja vu??? Serendipity !! That sweater becomes you 
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Happy Birthday Sir I hope you had an Awesome day, you don't look a day over 40. 🎂
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Martin Hayter That is old...hey, isn't that the sweater Caesar was wearing around this time a few hundred years ago, you know, just before the Ides of March.
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Karen Troxler It proves it's best to buy quality.
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Stan Burfield I just checked for the label...non-existent! Same with the buttons. All replaced. But it's never had any holes or rips or frays...just keeps on going.
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Stan Burfield 35 years old...I wonder if they would take it for resale at Value Village.
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Stan Burfield But no. It'll go with me into the grave.
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Martin Hayter It's important to have some casual wear beyond the grave.
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Gord McCaw No, well, look, don't say nothing, uh, Stan, actually, well, how could you put it, it was 32 years ago...
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Stan Burfield no well don't say nothing but 32 years ago the sweater was 3 years old. wait. gotta finish my coffee.
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Happy birthday, Stan

1/31/2016

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Gord McCaw‎  to Stan Burfield
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Happy birthday Stan, here's a little gift for you. I've been going through some negs from the 80's and found this shot of you from March 2, 1984. We were having a fast coffee at the Aristocratic, which you may remember was at the SW corner of Broadway & Granville, where the Chapters bookstore has now been for many years...

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Stan Burfield That is such a crazy coincidence, Gord. I am sitting here right now as you post that WEARING THE EXACT SAME SWEATER!!!!!
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Gord McCaw Which is why, of course, I sent it...
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Stan Burfield Uh, Gee, Gord. You and I do go back a ways, but umm, you know... umm
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Stan Burfield When Lindas show is over, Ièll ask her to take an updated shot of the above.
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Gord McCaw That would be cool...
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Stan Burfield Just before I went on my bicycle trip: Thunder Bay to St. Johns
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Kathryn Alexander the Aristrocratic was the cafe my nana used to take me for hot choc and chicken in the straw I miss it
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Koral Scott This is amazing!
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Martin Hayter I remember the Aristocrat! THE diner's diner in Vancouver. Cool sign too. Shame about Chapters moving in...
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Stan Burfield Gord has a huge data bank of his own photos of old store signs. I'm sure he has one of this one.
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Gord McCaw Indeed I do, I shot photos of the Aristocratic close to the time of this picture, about a month before they stripped the 30 foot bands of white neon off the sides of the building. I'll post a shot later when I'm near the PC...
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Gord McCaw I accidentally posted this to the wrong thread. I shot this photo of the Aristocratic on Jan. 28, 1985...
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Stan Burfield Great photo, and a beautiful cafe. Sad that it was torn down. Going by the wording on the sign, they expected to become a chain, not just a memory.
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Gord McCaw The Aristocratic was a chain, at the height of their success, in the 40's and 50's, there were a dozen Aristocratics, as the sign says, "all over town". There was one up in Marpole and another at Granville & Smithe, making three on Granville alone...
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Stan Burfield Wow, I had no idea. Viravek must have borrowed "all over town" from the cafe.
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Gord McCaw I like the way he used to say he was "going to town."...
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Stan Burfield Ha, yeah. I just listened to one of those tapes today. Just like yesterday. Hey, can I put in the tape of the Allen Ginsberg reading? (Then I'll post it, if it turns out any good.)
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Stan Burfield Great. Suddenly the audience expands!
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Winter sunset

1/22/2016

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 In the spring and summer, the sun will set at the right side of this photo, if not further. The road down below is pointing straight west. ​


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Yvonne Maggs
Yvonne Maggs Lovely ...
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Barbara Green
Barbara Green We really are wobbly on our axis, aren't we?
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Stan Burfield
Stan Burfield Yeah. You can really see it from up here. That road is pointing straight west, towards the summer sunset.
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Meredith Moeckel
Meredith Moeckel Did you add any green to this photo Stan? Just wondering since I've never seen such green in a sunset!
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Stan Burfield
Stan Burfield I did enhance the colour a bit, just increasing the colour saturation mainly, but it may have added some green. (I'm red-green colour blind.) The problem is that my cheap little camera washes out a beautiful sunset like this completely when there's a little of the actual sun in it so that the photo looks like a bright day-time photo. But it looks pretty close to the real deal here..
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Meredith Moeckel P.S. What a beautiful view you and Linda have of sunsets! smile emoticon
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Stan Burfield
Stan Burfield Yeah. We would hate to move from here, just for that reason.
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    Organizer of London Open Mic Poetry. former support worker for people with autism and developmental disabilities.  former farm boy, former adventurer, former florist.
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    *Before the leaves
    *Pensive in winter mist.
    *New Year's Day, 2017.
    *Linda's Christmas decorations 
    *Linda and her Christmas display
    *Linda made whole wheat scones.
    *Seeing Linda off
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    *Linda in first day of snow. ​
    *Balcony finished?
    *Linda relaxing
    *We'll see...
    ​*Linda and I in the Rose Garden. 
    *Listening to the leaves popping open. It sounds like rain, or crickets.
    *Fred, my father
    *​A perfect day to stroll in the woods. 
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    Short Blurbs
    *Voting Booth
    *Screaming and shouting
    *New diary plan
    *That's just weird
    *It happens like this...
    *Kevin Heslop as an actor!
    *repair of damaged DNA (aging)!
    *Paterson: great movie about a poet 
    *I learned from Thomas Moore...
    *Linda' skills are blooming
    *Here's how my day began...
    *...or we don't.
    *An actual woman to a man...
    *On this Valentines Day... ​
    *How little I've changed!
    *A sunny dream, with no fear.
    *Little mistakes....
    *A label for the essence of something
    *​Dream of a typed poem
    *Here's what I want:
    *I like her quirks.
    *A little success
    *The course of history...
    *From "The Cat's Table" by Ondaatje
    *Happy to be a citizen again
    *I THINK IT’S LIKE THIS.
    *I'm so lucky.
    *After rollercoastering, I'm excited!!!
    *Old photos
    *Fire!
    *A memory that keeps returning.
    *What is TRUMP''S AUTHORITARIANISM all about?
    *Practising morality on Halloween
    *Hanging on to an ethic
    *LOOK OUT!!
    *Out of a harsh thing...
    *Mr. Moon comes rolling in.
    *What if...
    *Will I and the Open Mic both survive?
    *I'm now a published poet! Finally.
    *Well, the MRI is done. 
    *Yeah!!! I'm finally a published poet!
    *Medical Update, for those interested
    *Yesterday I had a mini-stroke.
    *We being ourselves.
    *Enormous relief
    *Orange-oatmeal cookies!
    *To put London Open Mic behind me
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    *She sings!
    *Worried
    *While walking home from the store with cherries...
    *Science
    *Standing Still
    *Hey, get a job!
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    *Linda and I are learning to trust.
    *Linda is away visiting relatives. 
    *"We halted and so knew that the quiet night was full of sounds..."
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    *"We halted and so knew that the quiet night was full of sounds..."
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    *Diet and health/longevity
    *Edward Hopper: Woman in Train Compartment
    *A pea and a bean in a pod
    ​*Colt!
    ​*Don't get it off your chest.
    ​*In a world that is neither Heaven nor Hell, hope drives everything.
    *Roy is 80
    *What is going on with these incredible coincidences I keep having?
    *My world of coincidences
    *Is that rumble a distant train or the city?
    *Revelations are everywhere.
    *Knowing you
    *Despite...
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    *The sound of love
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    *Our smile for the day
    *Hurricanes Carla and Esther
    ​*Time Warp!

    *The Pow Wow
    *The Polar Sea
    *Other people
    *Moccasin Bells
    * Stories from my life
    *Je  suis Charlie Hebdo, mais....
    *Life at a fire lookout tower
    *Dominoes
    *Grinch
    *This was my dad in 1965
    *Blue

    Personal Essays
    *Here’s my inch, for what it’s worth
    *Freedom to talk
    *I wonder
    ​*Will I and the Open Mic both survive?
    *Medical Update, for those interested
    *Fred, my father
    *THIS  IS  GETTING  TOO  WEIRD:  the nearly-impossible coincidences are rolling in en masse now.
    *After four seasons, I'm flying!
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    *True North
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    *Back to work on poetry, finally!!
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    *Maybe it's time to see a psychiatrist.
    *66: My best birthday ever.
    *Out of darkness..
    *Hacker attack. Oh man...
    *Jean Vanier, what is this thing he's discovered?
    *Jean Vanier and L'Arche
    *But then again...
    *A Most Useful Invention
    *Building my next beater.
    *My dreams are full of people now.
    *Dear Diary: Relax. Take your boots off. 
    *Those big pictures
    *An UnSilent Night
    *Urban Legends
    *Familiar
    *I  had a glass of Landon Cabernet last night
    *The Less-educated Imagination
    *Listen, I'll tell you something that's really got me worried
    *Can't get enough


    Poems
    *The universe as a poem
    *If you don't know
    *A meander through Euston Park 
    *The Picard Card
    *To Open the Morning
    * We'll see...
    *1st published poem: On a Crate 
    *We decide
    *Standing Still
    *DRINK
    *Oblivious
    *Some Other Place
    *Tinnitus
    *It seems you just have to be still
    *In the Night
    *When I was young
    *Not for inspiration
    *Oh
    *Concerning our Glorious Future: (2nd prize winner at 2014 Poetry London Contest)
    *Yes I heard Ginsberg read once he said prepare for death
    *Amazement
    *Getting used to it
    *And now the news
    *Heart Shaped


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