2009
I have always enjoyed cheesy sitcoms when they have created an episode out of some of their greatest moments and blended them all together in a flash-back or dream mode. So, in honour of this idea, I thought I would look back on 2009 through the window of 80 blogs and choose some of my…
Continue readingMy Beat
Past the derelict mattressand the overgrown pavementover the tracksand through the hole in the fencePast graffiti-bright buildingsand the junkyard alarm belland the screaming police carsand it’s all present tenseIt’s my beatIn my new townPast the drunk woman reelingwith her bag of provisionsDown through the tunnelwith the stink-fuming busOn to the bike pathwhere it’s something like…
Continue readingEarth Crammed With Heaven
“Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes – The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Continue readingMystery
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. –Albert Einstein I love to…
Continue readingA Serious Education
In Comment Magazine published by Cardus, Greg Veltman has written a review of the movie A Serious Man. I will quote a portion of it here. You can also see the entire review in its context here. Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest film, A Serious Man, feels like a loose adaptation of the story of…
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