As jubilados (Spanish for retirees) we’re fans of Leonard Cohen who wrote: “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
1. “Aye yi yi. But that Zelenskyy, he’s a peppy little guy.” Were he here, I imagine this is what Grandpa Danchuk (whose favourite term
Every year during this holiday season, I’m on a quest to recapture the spontaneous joy it gave my childhood. The excitement of concerts, the crystal
The summer solstice, our signal to celebrate the official calendar start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere, happens on
Yesterday, April 30, concluded National Poetry Month in Canada. In our courtyard a large magnolia is abloom (late this year) with voluptuous flowers. The perfect
A poet is like a barometer for the psyche of a nation. It cannot change the weather. But it shows us what the weather is.
In Córdoba, “nadie escapa de la poesía” (nobody escapes from poetry) wrote Shmuel HaNagid, in the tenth century. Rills of water flow softly in a
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