All James, All The Time. [such as he is. -- Ed.]
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Found these photos (below) on Facebook.
Yes, that’s me in the white jacket.
I was the emcee for our Talent Night back in 1988, my senior year in highschool.
And I wasn’t just emceeing, I played a character (the name of which I can’t remember — Vinnie, maybe?). The whole shtick was that the talent [...]
I am ever amazed and mystified by how the world moves in circles. How connections are made, lost, and found again. How those connections are never really broken, just …lost. Misplaced. I’m afraid I can’t really be any less cryptic than that. And I’m not really being cryptic intentionally. It’s …just the way it is. [...]
Susan’s birthday just passed and I sent her a brief note. She responded with a reminder that my last birthday card to her was 20 years ago, exactly.
The things we remember, hey?
Technically, what follows here is a repost of a repost. I’m in a bit of a “reminiscy” mood today, so I pulled [...]
So here’s the thing about my uncle (actually, my great-uncle, my mom’s uncle). I hardly knew him. In fact, I hadn’t seen him since I was very little.
He was a farmer who lived…well, on a farm. And then when he retired, he moved to a community somewhere in BC. That’s about [...]
So there’s something I’ve been meaning to talk about.
I’ve been putting it off for about a week, now.
It’s something that stirs up a lot of memories.
It’s very close to me.
It reminds me of a time when I was young, and free.
When love was love.
And I didn’t care what others thought of the love I had.
So [...]
Today is the first day of Spring. I have the windows open.
Eternal
© 2008, jwr
This song might bring back some memories for my co-Canadians out there.
BLVD. (Boulevard) wasn’t really a one-hit wonder kind of band, but more like a one-album-wonder kind of band. They had at least two singles, the other one I recall being “Never Give Up”. But I believe that the album that spawned this single was [...]
I wasn’t sure what to write about, today…until this arrived in my e-mail, under the title “Mementos”:
Hi James,
I was going through my scrapbook from highschool looking for some mementos from grad and happened on a few things from you. I have the note you dropped in my locker the day we broke up and [...]
With summer all but here, thunderstorm season is upon us. Compared to, say, my childhood haunts in Saskatchewan or Thunder Bay, Ontario — the latter where thunderstorms seemed to last for days — our thunderstorms here in this patch of Southern Alberta are brief and relatively mild, but I still enjoy them.
Both Saturday and [...]
Today’s music:
Hard Sun, INDIO
Words & Music by Gordon Peterson
(lyrics below)
According to the songwriter, the song is actually a metaphor for a man’s relationship with the earth and most people miss this. When the song came out in 1989, I know I missed the message. I thought it was about something else; it’s an [...]
