WRITER'S NOTEBOOK 4: A Portfolio of Sketches

Don Pablo Picasso

Street Scene below

the Frontenac

Mme. Isabel on the

train back to Toronto

The lady was

crying. Baldy

explaining?

Le Ile de Notre

Dame

Montreal Orpheus:
El Guitarista

Gorda waiting for bus.

Men wondering why

blackbirds were dying

in the City Square.

These sketches were part of the Notebook for a Vacation in Montreal, Quebec, 1985.

When one cannot write, one draws. Or Paint. Fingerpaint. The writer's block thrives on sloth and inactivity. Better still, get to the bistros and exercise your arm muscles by lifting those mugs of beer and glasses of wine. Cheers! Salud! Salut! Kampai!

Turn down an empty cup.