A year ago this morning I was soaking in the tub at Walden, listening to the shocking news on CBC Radio. I couldn’t believe it. The world had changed. The PC Party had formed a coalition with the Alliance dissidents to form the Progressive Conservative Democratic Representative Caucus! Then the phone rang. It was Suzy in Ottawa. “Did you hear the news?” “Yes. Can you believe that! What a stupid thing!” “I’m just sitting here shaking. Mom called because Dad is flying out of New York this morning … it’s just so terrible!” “I still think Joe will survive this.” “WHAT?” * * * The real news was more difficult…

“I have seen a dark cloud as wide as the sky rolling up from the northeast and blasting all my hopes …” Henry David Thoreau (Journal ) “War, to sane men … begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men’s brain instead of their bowels.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (War)

I wanted to add a final summer tune for the end of the season. This Tony Orlando and the Dawns song has been bugging me for days, and I finally found it on-line. When I sang it to Suzy, she grimaced like she usually does when I sing, but then said, “Why are they singing about a yeast infection?” I had no idea I had been humming for days about what my Oxford Reference defines as “a yeastlike parasitic fungus that causes thrush.” That might explain why the tune was so hard to shake. The future is bright The gypsy told me so last night. Said she saw our children…

Kinetic Travel has published my brief introduction to Greenwich, PEI. See: KineticTravel.net and choose Can- PEI from the drop-down menu.