On bounced rent cheques and teary-eyed excuses

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Projection

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Projection. Human beings are experts at it. In all likelihood we are the only creatures that do it—though that would be hard to test (but I ...

Some Time

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CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE SONG Those days were pretty wild, We went to all the shows.  Knew every verse by heart, Had nowhere else to go, Wore ...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Belonging

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CLICK HERE TO HEAR AUTHOR READ We wear the weekday hats  and costumes,  in the stores, the factories, the offices, and weekend gatherings, b...
Friday, October 3, 2025

The Power of Love

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In the 1960s the Beatles told us that love was all we needed. A decade later the British glam band Sweet compared love to oxygen: “You get t...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

When We Stop Creating

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I used to feel proud to be part of humanity. It felt good, because human beings had done wonderful things. We created majestic works of art,...
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Monday, September 29, 2025

Cart Pulls Horse

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CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE SONG You might think I'm anxious, Did everything that I could. To make you think you're mine, Never thinking ...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Whither Canada

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One more brief word on the recognition of a Palestinian State. In my last post I focused mostly on why it was counter-productive. This time,...
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B. Glen Rotchin
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Poet, book-reviewer, author of the novels The Rent Collector and Halbman Steals Home and full-time property manager in the garment district of Montreal, Glen shares his thoughts about life lived at the intersection of the material and spiritual world. And of course, books.
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