"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.]

"What the. . .!"
 

"What to make of this?"

Charlie visits the bookshop ~

"Maybe we can play. . ."

Come back again, Charlie.

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 . . .

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. . .

"je suis Charlie"

 



Cayuga's New Fire Station

Haldimand County Fire Department Station 4

THE OUTING:  A STORY

"If you can call it a story.  There's no real beginning or
end and there's very little in the middle.  It is all about
a day's outing, by charabanc, to Porthcawl, which,
of course, the charabanc never reached, and it happened
when I was so high and much nicer."

Dylan Thomas was a story teller . . .

 

~ A STORY BY DYLAN THOMAS with illustrations by Meg Stevens J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. 1954, 1971.