The Tree Northeast of the Legislature Buildings in Victoria, B.C. Circa 1974
(Wikipedia image) We had a good thing going,living under that 70-foot Sequoia, the way those graceful branches reached around and down to the ground,crea...
Category: Culture
The tedious and the astonishing
Strife at first light. Fear for breakfast.Daily meal of hostility.All this is tedious. Hate is tedious.The man shaking his fist behind his windshield,behind his...
Grow Mercy’s year-end list of unwarranted propositions–revised and ready for 2017
I believe that words, in moments of grace, as Elie Wiesel said, can attain the quality of deeds; that despite the crazed magnificence of our vanities, our screw...
Nibbled to death by ducks
A bit of truth, a bit of whimsy… On the Inner Harbour walkway, two men, dressed neatly, stand statelybeside their “literature” carts.They glisten with pit...