Water for Earth Day

“We end with a suggestion: that we properly rename our third from the sun inner planet after the humble, crucial chemical compound that sustains us: Water!” Water Gaia: 3.5 Thousand Million Years of Wetness on Planet Earth. (Harding and Margulis, 2010.) We let the grass grow long hereIt takes the rain infinitely gentleeach blade leads…

The Heart Ward by Max Hafler

1939 Germany invades Poland: World War 2 begins: but in Toronto University, Canada, the professor of English, G. Wilson Knight, was writing a book: The Burning Oracle. I came across this book around 1984 when Max Hafler and I decided to form a small-scale touring theatre company. We wanted to show how Shakespeare and the Jacobean…