“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand-new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and look on all beings with eyes of compassion.” Thieh Nhat Hanh
Could the whole purpose for our lives be said better? I don’t think so. The day seems a blank slate [...]

This is the last panel from the Sunday comics yesterday. The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, by Pab Subgenis, a truly brilliant cartoon which features the enterprising Queen in a variety of motifs. In this she is discussing the palace garden with Queen Elizabeth the first.
I am going to post this [...]

Posted this renku from the cartoon, Sylvia (said by one of her cats). Nicole Hollander is the artist. There it sways in the garden under an uncertain sun, among the orange lilies that prevail the length and breadth of Kingston, Ontario.
Trying to decide whether or not to post my url [...]

My husband, who has been in many riots, is complaining bitterly while alternately watching soccer playoffs, then switching back to the G20 coverage where police cars are blazing away and other scenes where protesters are dancing on top of police cars that some say were parked as decoys.
“Punks!” my husband says “What [...]

Today’s the last day I can comment about one particularly glaring problem in the document that will ’shape the cultural development of the Kingston community over the next 10 years.”
Unfortunately, it is being presented to the Arts, Recration & Etc committee which means it probably includes the plan to blindly follow [...]

Outside the rain pours down. When it is sunny again, I shall post two renku by the poet Arakawa in honour of his July 6th birthday: “When I am away from you, I feel like a watermelon seed.” and “he is elegant between his toes.”
Also dear Sylvia the cartoonist has a [...]

At the end of June, only two of the short haiku style poems that are called renku have been swiped. This morning I went out and took pictures.
Here they are:
If someone in the neighbourhood is reading this, renku may be stuffed into my mailbox on the front door. Whether or not [...]

Signs at the beginnings of the three lanes in the pool tell you lane speed. There are three: SLOW, MEDIUM & FAST, leaving it up to you to decide how speedy you are. Choice also depends on who else is in the lane at the moment. SLOW can sometimes become so speedy that [...]

Little tiny brains (waggle heads fetchingly back & forth)
In the federal government
They wobble to and fro
Where ‘ere they’re sent
When they sell our farms
They are showing their
LITTLE TINY BRAINS (Lightly cuff head unbelievingly)
2)
The Correctional Service
Says they’re saving dough
When they sell our famrs
But this ain’t so
The cost goes up
In society
due to TINY BRAINS!
(SING first verse again)
3) [...]

1) They’re shutting down
Our prison farms
Deep in the heart of Kingston (clap-clap-clap)
Greedy idiots
Doing harm
Deep in the heart of Kingston (clap-clap-clap)
2) The heart of Kingston
Reaches out (clap-clap-clap)
To prison farms
around us (clap-clap-clap)
Keep all the cows
Yes, keep the lot
This is the word from Kingston! (clap-clap-clap)
*Make up your own verses – it’s easy!

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