Thought for Today ~
"Nothing is more essential to our lives than stories ~ the only things of equal importance are food, shelter, human love and some kind of religious activity."
~ Hugh Hood (1920 - 2000) Canadian novelist, university professor, quoted by John Metcalf in sixteen by Twelve. Made Officer of The Order of Canada.
"I don't believe that those stories should be recorded by anybody except us. I don't think that you have any right to come into my community and tell my stories for me. I can speak for myself. I share them with you, and you can read them. And if you come into my circle, and I tell you the stories, then you should respect that you're invited into the circle."~ Maria Campbell. Metis storyteller and writer, interviewed by Hartmut Lutz in Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors (1991). Author of seven books, award-winning playwright.
Source: FAMOUS LASTING WORDS Great Canadian Quotations, John Robert Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
"The newspapers have to have bad news, otherwise there would be only ads, or good news. Without bad news we could not discern the ground rules of the environment."
~ Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1989) Canadian communications pioneer, "Address at Vision 65" (1966).
[Source: John Robert Colombo's FAMOUS LASTING WORDS Great Canadian Quotations, 2000, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.]
~ Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1989) Canadian communications pioneer, "Address at Vision 65" (1966).
[Source: John Robert Colombo's FAMOUS LASTING WORDS Great Canadian Quotations, 2000, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.]
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Thought for Today ~
"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
~ John F. Kennedy
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
~ Sigmund Freud
"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
~Robert F. Kennedy
Let's hope . . .
"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
~ John F. Kennedy
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
~ Sigmund Freud
"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
~Robert F. Kennedy
Let's hope . . .
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.
Join us in The Neat L'l Bookshop on Thursday, January 15 at 1:00 p.m. Laurie Miller, author of "The Avro Arrow" will read and present the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Everyone welcome ~ coffee pot's always on. . .
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.
Join us in The Neat L'l Bookshop on Thursday, January 15 at 1:00 p.m. Laurie Miller, author of "The Avro Arrow" will read and present the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Everyone welcome ~ coffee pot's always on. . .
Sunday, January 11, 2015
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