Monthly Archives: January 2014

Gate D 63

  Destiny. My destiny!   Droll thing life is- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself- that comes too late- a crop of unextinguishable regrets. … Continue reading

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Good byes

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends Joan Didion, Goodbye to All That As we returned from Guelph University in the snow, we discussed –Runaway-by Alice Munro. The walking-reading book club was … Continue reading

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Shadows

  One definition of maturity is the closing off of possibility. If one becomes a captain of a ship, then one cannot be a mathematician or an astronomer. This issue is addressed in Joseph Conrad’s novel-Shadow Lines. The writer Jeff … Continue reading

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