Category Archives: Mortality

Musings about getting older – the physical, mental, and attitudinal changes that come (good and bad) – and the inevitability of death – our own and that of those we love.

Lunar Tunes

Happy Lunar New Year! As I write this it started yesterday (Saturday, Feb 10), but celebrants carry on their festivities for 15 days, so we have ample time to get with it. Continue reading

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The Night Lengthens . . .

“There are only two times of the year when the Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a “nearly” equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes…. The “nearly” equal hours of day and night is due to refraction of sunlight or a bending of the light’s rays that causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon.” You’ll be relieved to know that this is the last you’ll hear of these mechanics from me. Continue reading

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My Whole Life

I am a one-kid illustration for glump. glump: to look glum: FROWN Sitting at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the half of our storey-and-a-half house in Edmonton, my head hangs, my shoulders slump. Can you blame … Continue reading

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A Simple Rule

Can we knock this off? Continue reading

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Three Hands

Remember when? Continue reading

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As Fall the Leaves

And so it continues. Continue reading

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Gradually and then Suddenly

Just one woman. But what a woman. Continue reading

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Shot by Shot

The Godfather, Die Hard, Kierkegaard, and me. Continue reading

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In Case You Were Wondering

It is a wise child that knows its mother. Continue reading

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