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Previously published in perpetual-lab.blogspot.com as "The Human Condition" on December 14th, 2014 To be alive is such a blessing that we rarely find ourselves able to grasp it. To feel this blessing in the moment is the most precious thing I know. Briefly I wondered if it makes grammatical sense to say “It’s a blessing… Continue reading To be alive is such a blessing →

Love Affairs: Tales of Love, Romance, and Sex by Arash Farzaneh My rating: 4 of 5 stars Farzaneh has a very appealing imagination, which directs his hero towards a variety of young women encountered during a year in downtown Vancouver, where “all types of girls can be found on the street”. At the end of… Continue reading Tall Stories from Vancouver →

Writing and reading Wednesday, 11 June 2008 Voices My latest post on A Wayfarer's Notes, Accompaniment, started out with a different agenda: to try and escape a continuing writer's block by writing a further post---about writer's block. (The last such post was reprinted in a Catholic women's journal by request of a reader, so I now consider it… Continue reading Reading Without Tears (draft) →

I found this draft on my computer today. Must have planned to send it to a seller on eBay, but lost interest  09/09/26 I'm interested in this collection because the Communes Magazine changed my life in 1971-2. My wife & I and two young children visited a number of people who wrote to the mag,… Continue reading Communes Magazine →