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Time Passes

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Winter beach, Jinshatan (Jeanne Pope) It seems a long time ago since October 1 st , since my last swim. It is now November 20th, and the world has changed. However, we tend to forget that the only permanent thing in life is change …as my friend* Stanley Lewis, the Montreal sculptor, would say.   *See appendix. Change For us Montrealers, Leonard Cohen died. It is at times like these we mourn together, an old friend. He was our Main Mascot. Our legend.  I was sent this poetic photo of his house on Marianne, Montreal, by my daughter, Alyosha: Cohen's magic (Alyosha Pope) I met him once, in 2006. After Stanley Lewis’ death, we celebrated with a show on his life as artist, in the Lambi Club, on the Boulevard St. Laurent*. Cohen had been asked to attend, as he was in town,  and an old friend of Stanley. He didn’t show up. 12pm, we were packing things away, and I went down stairs to have a breather. A small rain fell, a squeegee punk* lent against the lam