A good read all the way but this whole section towards the end on A Canadian sensibility was spot on amazing.

It's about time they were recognized as being equally able to ruin everything as men are!

I'm not well read on poetry or good at appreciating it as I should, but:

"...with more years and more years
and more long years of being gone still to come."

hit hard from first reading and is a line I've returned to.

Regards. He would be proud and sounds a man worth missing.

Oy, I clearly did stay up too late. I'd best trade cross checking for spell checking.

Absolutely two extremes of emotion. Can't imagine either time slept much that night, both replying the key moments.

"My library is an archive of longings." — Susan Sontag

Such a hard thing. I'm very sorry to hear it and hope those memories offer some comfort.

Oof...three words too many (allegations that I secretly approve are as scandalous as they are true)

Truly a wicked pun.

That one is so good!

I am feeling the opposite of curmudgeonly reading that! In fact I'm positively ylnoegdumruc