‘My nose precedes me by fifteen minutes’

Summer Stage #9, Saturday 23 July 2016--That's Cyrano de Bergerac, the literary character,  talking about his nose. Cyrano de Bergerac, the playwright, also had his literary character talk about an imaginative way he got to the moon. In July1969, I studied a play based on de Bergerac's writing. I was wrapping up studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, taking two drama courses. …

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Clutter-control for collectables, including matchbooks and other stuff

Summer Stage #8, Saturday 16 July 2016--What to do with the treasures you've collected over the years? Enriched by, not captive to, possessions Our lives would be so much the poorer without the things we collect and prize. Having and creating things is part of what makes us human, said English artist Michael Landy. Yet, get …

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For the love of birds, end of school, boat launch, UK Referendum . . .

Summer Stage #5, Saturday 25 June 2016--Endings, beginnings, interludes, uncertainties--no one word captures the drama of change we see all around. Something better lies just around the corner, we say, if only we'd find that corner. Thankfully we do have heartening precedents and prospects. It's just the present that stumps us. One "sure thing" precedent for …

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Sounding out summer

Summer Stage #4, Sunday 19 June 2016--Who doesn't prefer natural sounds over noise? (One of our computers is getting repaired and that prevents me from downloading photos from this week. I'll add a few from the file to this shorter blog.) On Friday's walk we heard birds singing, water coursing over a creek dam, a breeze soughing through …

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Imagine that . . .

Summer Stage #1, Sunday 29 May 2016--Imagine that you're a child again. Imagine that you climb into a wardrobe. Imagine that you go through the wardrobe into a jaw-dropping, enchanting new world. You're in Narnia. Yes Narnia. You're at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ontario watching The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. You and your three …

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