Musings

Don Jackson. Former host of Lovers and Other Strangers spanning three decades and syndicated across Canada. Author, broadcaster, storyteller. Heartbeat of the Internet Main Page

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Happy Easter - Three Trees

“An egg is dear on Easter Day.” - Russian Proverb

Here is my special Easter webcast. I hope you will enjoy it and share it with family and friends.

Happy Easter!

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Sensual

“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“The great city fell asleep but we did not sleep. Clearly we heard, all night, from the hillock next to our house the tender branches of the flower-clustered tree with leaves like peacock feet let fall their blue-sapphire flowers.” -  Kollan Arici trans. by A. K. Ramanujan

“On a spring hillside I took lodging for the night; and as I slept the blossoms kept on falling - even in the midst of my dreams.” - Ki no Tsurayuki trans. by Steven D. Carter

“With not a thought for my black hair’s disarray, I lay myself down - soon longing for the one whose hands have so often brushed it smooth.” - Lady Izumi Shikibu trans. by Stephen Carter

A very sensual webcast for the start of spring.

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Spring!

"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." - Milton [1644]

"The Night is the mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon the old Decay The greenest mosses cling." - John Greenleaf Whittier

Yes, as one comedian said on Twitter and I paraphrase: "The first day of spring was remarkably like the last day of winter." But winter is now over and we wait for the proof that spring has indeed arrived. Here's one of my most popular webcasts called Transformation.

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Purple

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.” - Rudyard Kipling [1893]

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Beginnings

"The only thing which is not purely mechanical about falling in love is its beginning. Although all those who fall in love do so in the same way, not all fall in love for the same reason. There is no single quality which is universally loved." - Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Happy Valentine’s Day

"I love thee with the breath Smiles, tears, of all my life." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

"Whenever I've needed someone to share my joy, or someone to hold me when my world rips to pieces, you're there. And I know you will be - tomorrow, always." - Maya V. Patel (b. 1943)

I was always on the radio on St. Valentine's Day. I hope you remember spending a part of your romantic evening with Lovers and Other Strangers. Please listen to and share these vignettes with the one you love this Valentine's Day. You can listen to them on your phone, tablet or computer.

Here’s a link to a special Valentine’s Day webcast that can only be watched and listened to on your computer.

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Valentine Hearts and Flowers

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." - Rose Henniker Heaton from The Perfect Hostess [1931]

It's been a day of hearts and flowers, but tonight, ah, tonight will be a night for those who remember Lovers and Other Strangers on the radio on Valentine's Day.

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Valentine Hearts

"Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory." - Sophocles

My special Valentine's Day vignettes can be listened to on your phone, your tablet or your computer. Please share with the love of your life today and have a very Happy Valentine's Day!

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Heart of Christmas

“It is not the weight of jewel or plate,    Or the fondle of silk or fur;  ‘Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich,    As the gifts of the Wise Ones were,  And we are not told whose gift was gold,    Or whose was the gift of myrrh.” - Edmund Vance Cooke

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Happy Hanukkah!

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Super Moon

This is a past webcast that features another super moon. I hope you will enjoy it and share it.

“They dined on mince, and slices of quince,  Which they ate with a runcible spoon;  And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,  They danced by the light of the moon.” - Edward Lear

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Haunted Heart

“There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter

Happy Halloween!

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Ghost Whispers

“I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost,  Who died before the god of love was born.” - Donne

Happy Halloween!

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Masks

“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but The truth in masquerade.” - Lord Byron in Don Juan

“No mask like open truth to cover lies,  As to go naked is the best disguise.” - William Congreve in The Double Dealer

Happy Halloween! BOO!

What mask did you wear this Halloween?

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Charmed

“Music has charms to soothe a savage breast,  To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” - William Congreve

“First Witch: When shall we three meet again  In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch: When the hurlyburly’s done,  When the battle’s lost and won.” - Macbeth by Shakespeare

Happy Halloween! BOO!

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The Bat The Vampire

“Come into the garden, Maud,  For the black bat, night, has flown,  Come into the garden, Maud,  I am here at the gate alone.” - Tennyson

Happy Halloween! BOO!

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Mother’s Garden

“When God thought of Mother, he must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power and beauty, was the conception.” - Henry Ward Beecher

My special Mother’s Day webcast is Mother’s Garden.

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Wouldn’t today be a great day to thank Mom for all she does?

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“It is from you that I first learned to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe. ...” - John Sterling in a letter to his mother. He lived between 1806 and 1844.

My webcast is a tribute to Mother’s Garden.