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March: One old proverb, one bad joke

What do we always think about when March comes around? I don’t mean the rain; that’s a given: the endless undulating succession of sunny days, thundershowers and soft rain that first raises and then washes away our hope for Spring. Not that. What I can’t stop thinking about are the things that stuck to my […]

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February – Valentine’s Day? Really?

But how did it all begin? The hearts, the candy, the flowers and, worst of all, the gooey rhymes about roses and violets. The impulse to romantic love seems universal. And being human, once we have the impulse, we need to express it. Virtually every culture in the world has some sort of festival of […]

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The Cruelest Month – April

April, according to TS Eliot’s opening lines from ‘The Wasteland’, is the cruelest month. Really? Maybe in England, but not here in Portland. It’s no wonder Eliot had bad feelings about April. The City of London lies at 51 degrees; the same longitude as Calgary. Contrast that with Portland, which sits at a balmy 45 […]