What are Angels?

“Poets are born knowing the language of angels.”   Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light November has turned over time to December, a month of deepening frost, and merry celebrations.  It’s the festive season when all the twinkling lights brighten up the city and give even a rainy Vancouver sky a mystical glow.  This isContinue reading “What are Angels?”

The Dunce Factor

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.” Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745), the author of Gulliver’s travels, was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, who became Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. This quote reminds me thatContinue reading “The Dunce Factor”

The Game is Afoot

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle   We never tire of Sherlock Holmes.  I paid a visit to 221 B Street when I was in London and found theContinue reading “The Game is Afoot”