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I'm glad your Canucks are doing well, I haven't heard the Canuck Outsider recently, I'll have to catch another one soon. That guy is a great commenter. Go Canucks!

Re: Beckett, do you think it was a simple matter of depression? Not that depression is simple, but I wonder because, as you recount what you learned from the bio, he got better during WWII, which I conjecture could have helped focus his attention outside his self, then he got attention for his work and gained some hope. Sounds like the world and the love of other people, for his work at least, drew him out of depression. Is that too simplistic?

Who wouldn't be depressed if they were involved with a Christian belief system. (I'm so impatient with any of these mono-theists religious thugs, the way they degrade daily experience, bullying women and children, projecting life's meaning onto a nether world defined by preachers). I'm with your yoga teacher.

Since you say you don't know how I am with Beckett, I can tell that you haven't noticed yet the blog comments, i.e. you haven't read my comment on "Edgy". I'd like us to start using the comments and their replies to branch off specific discussions. Since our readers are not using them yet, we may as well. Twenty years after my High School drama interest in Beckett, I gained a new interest in him in the '80s when I was reading and reading about Joyce. After dipping into "Finnegans Wake" for a couple of years, I read some of a Beckett novel (don't remember the title). It was fun in a dreamy way. When I read things like that, I'm very pleased by the inner images which spring from these seemingly incomprehensible word strings.

The weather here in New York this morning is about as good as it gets anywhere, low 70s, clear sky, slight breeze. All I can say about the weather is that it is way-whacky everywhere. San Fran and Sonoma, like you, have had too much rain, Hawaii, where daughter, Heather and husband Jim may be moving soon, is absolutely washed away with historically unprecedented amounts of rain. Here, we had a mild winter, a record one-day snow fall which melted away in three days and now, a record dry March. Glaciers melting into the oceans, all these port cities are threatened, no telling what's going to happen anywhere. I'm just glad that the global discussion has gotten beyond questioning whether there is climate change and now is pondering whether we've passed a tipping point. When the oil mafia, which controls this country, is defeated, the world can make some progress towards providing future generations with an environment they can live in.