Call me back later

Our soon to be 7 years old granddaughter is staying with us till next Sunday.  Today being Christmas she got presents, among other a play tea set.  She was serving tea to her plush toys when Skype rang.  Her parents were calling.  After a few moments we heard her saying:" Skype me tomorrow, I'm busy serving tea!"

Élégie

« Je n'ai jamais eu de chagrin qu'une heure de lecture n'ait dissipé.  »

de Montesquieu

Extrait des Pensées diverses

Combien de poètes se sont penchés avec nostalgie

Sur des bonheurs et des êtres perdus

Au fil de vers et d’élégies

À tous les échos entendus?

Combien d’yeux les ont lus en pleurant,

D’humains envahis d’émotions

Emportés par le courant

D’un torrent destructeur de leur déliction?

Combien de ces écrits

Sont-ils devenus dômes protecteurs

Contre les chagrins décrits

Sous la plume de leurs auteurs?

À travers ces œuvres, souvent magnifiques,

Combien de sentiments exprimés par procuration,

De moments magiques

Suscités par ces créations?

Merci poètes d’exprimer en vos mots

Mes élans intimes

Quant, ultimo,

D’un manque de vocabulaire je suis victime.

Paul Costopoulos, jeudi, 15 novembre 2012

“L’idée, trempée dans le vers, prend soudain quelque chose de plus incisif et de plus éclatant. C’est le fer qui devient acier."

Victor Hugo

        

A strange breed

Voters all over the world have become a very strange breed.  It would seem that they can not trust anybody enough to give them a clear mandate.  Where you have proportional representation systems, of course, coalitions are the norm but in systems such as the British patterned government systems they are not.
However, as of late in many countries voters seem to be unable to make a clear choice.  The U.S., for instance, will have, at least for the next two years, a Democrat President (Thank God), a Republican Chamber of  Representatives and a Democrat Senate; a clear recipe for legislative paralysis.  Britain has a coalition Conservative/Liberal government, odd bedfellows.
Québec very recently elected a minority government split evenly between Separatist P.Q. (54) and Liberal Federalists (50), the remaining seats split between a radical left party Q.S. also separatist leaning (2) and a the right leaning semi-federalist C.A.Q., about a dozen.  No one wants to coalesce with another so it will be negociations ad nauseam to pass legislation.
No wonder we have an unending  economic crisis and uncertain social climate.

Four seasons in one

An Autumn Bouquet from St-Sauveur, Qc

Le solitaire têtu

Un pommier solitaire croît dans le stationnement d'un motel, Le Jolibourg, à St-Sauveur-des-Monts.  Le croiriez-vous, il reste quelques 4 pommes dans l'arbre en ce 26 septembre.

Matter of fact

Last night, we all went to La Crêperie du Vieux Beloeil, in Beloeil of course, for supper.  We went in two cars since our cars are small.  On the way back, Ariane, 6 years and a 1/2, discussed her  3 former cats: one died accidentally and two of old age.  As the discussion evolved it turned to human deaths.
At one point, she told her aunts:"You will also die and when you are both dead, your house will be mine!"

The coin has been tossed

...and fell on the edge:  54 P.Q. MNAs and 50 Liberals, 19 Coalit6ion Avenir Québec and 2 Québec Solidaire.  We should have some very interesting moments in the coming months...and maybe a new elction within the next 12 months; but the Liberals will have to choose a new leader before we have one since the the ex-prime minister has resigned his leadership after being beaten in his own county.
Sic transit gloria mundi.