Memoirs of a (former) Restaurant Owner...
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DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to our regular customers and some of our irregular ones…with love.
Thank you for sharing five years with us. Thank you for sharing your home-grown parsley, zucchini, your tomatoes and last, but never least, your cucumbers, your wit and your affection.
This book is a little late in coming, since I’ve had it stashed in a drawer for the past many...
Mkulu, the Unfinished Giraffe...
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In Edonia there are artists who carve animals from wood. Anapa was such an artist.
As a small child he had dreamed of wood carvings that would make him famous throughout the land of Edonia. He had dreamed of being asked to carve animals for the King’s throne, and that he, Anapa, would be invited to create such a throne.
As he grew up he spent hours watching animals in the bush,...
Friendship – poem...
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There is a
sweetness in
friendship
like the honey taste
of pulled grass.
Warmth and growth
shared.
Years from now we’ll
remember
how it was . . .
Almost Aspen Grove,
a Sacrament of light,
high and burning
colour, autumn air,
a cricket orchestra and
Scottish thistles,
blue ones – see?
And around, all around,
the mountains
looking as if ancient fingers
folded...
To all writers, everywhere, who have no ...
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To all writers, everywhere, who have no time to write – poem
Now is the time of the black and white sketch
Never a time to do oils
Now is the time of the unrhymed verse
Condensed into coils and coils of
Thought that
Go down in a hurry
Don’t worry about writing novels
No time
Now is the time
Now
Do your sketch, you poor wretch,
Write your verse, keep it terse,
Stir your...
The Day They Roared at the Lion – ...
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bearded mouths wide open
roaring
with awesome noise
that puts to flight the King of Beasts.
and they?
collapse! hoarse with laughter and delight.
who had the greater fright?
my great-grandfather Thomas Hartley
and his three hunter sons,
or the tawny black-maned
brute, that runs?
the lion, of course!
fashioned, fully passioned
by the same primeval force,
men and lion switched...
Once Upon A Time – poem...
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“Once upon a time . . .”
What magic lingers in the mind!
Dragons! princesses! knights and dwarfs,
maidens mythical,
apples golden,
bright enchantment webbing us willing
in
spider thrall.
Once upon a time . . .
I too was young and life sublime;
seeking after
dreams, enticed by yesterdays, beckoned
by tomorrows. So lost I all
I might have known
of present joys
that sped...
Learning to Live Without Lilacs -poem...
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“We’ll gather lilacs in the spring again . . .”
wrote Ivor Novello, during World War II, reminding us
that the dark days of war would not last forever.
Just so, we wait through freezing days ‘til once
again the lilacs bloom and
fill us with delight.
Lilacs! The very name perfumes the air and
conjures up the purple, mauve and
white
patrician blooms.
Even as they dip...
Many a Bright Target – poem...
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Many a bright and
beckoning
target
beseeches our
joyous aim
We watch our
gleaming arrows sink
in pillow-soft indifference
that feathers round
our heads
While the bow still
quivers
in our minds
Shall we go
on like Scott to the
white South
Pole?
Yes, and yes,
so long as targets
beckon and
we have strength to
loose just one
more
arrow
from our eager
soul.
Pene Beavan...
Conversations with the Conductor … a s...
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NOTE: Internationally renowned Conductor, Antonin Waldstein, (not his real name), was unable to deliver his scheduled music lecture to residents of Sidney, because he broke his conducting leg getting off the ferry at Swartz Bay.
Maestro Czeslaw Gladyszewski, dazzling young Polish Canadian symphony orchestra Conductor, kindly stepped into the breach and delivered the lectures for his...
What Nut are you on the Family Tree?...
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What’s so fascinating about a lot of ancestors who’ve been dead a long time?
People are going nuts over genealogy. It isn’t just Auntie Maisie in Victoria who’s doing it — everybody’s doing it. Thousands of Canadians and millions of researchers globally are immersing themselves in their family history.
The big question is why? What’s so...
