Reflections on All Souls Day
— First draft: All Souls Day 2022. Published: 14 March 2023. In his novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Milan Kundera observes that animals don’t have…
With These Thoughts…
The other photo was taken by my friend Gordon Hatt at the wedding of my dear friends Sarah and David in Manitoulin Island during that same summer. After…
This Post is About Racism
This post is about racism: I had a wonderful time listening to classic bluesy songs at an international club in Gulshan tonight but the night didn’t…
My Homeland in the Imagination: An Homage to Salman Rushdie
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
Sister
Having adopted three cats while I lived there, I spent considerable time in the busy waiting room of an animal hospital in the town of Waco,…
Nightmasks and Other Poems
Nightmasks In dreamdarknessI come upon a nightEndless and vast Lit up by the moonlampcasting lightshadowson familiar faces — revealing theirnightmasks Wingseeds Dried wingseeds fall onThis alien…
My Father Would Have Been 87 Today
My father would have been 87 today. Even in illness, after suffering a stroke and eventual dementia, he was intellectually curious. The day after he suffered…
The Second Eternity
For E. [This was published in Carved Voices and is based on an earlier essay of mine.] Late one evening, as I waited for her outside…
Love and Time
More time is not more eternity. — Juan Ramón Jiménez What if someone or something exists only for a very short interval of time? Would you…
Speech: 10 Years of PSI
On the 21st of June, 2019, I was invited to give a speech to celebrate 10 years of PSI. Here’s the speech (video starts at my…