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It’s officially spring! I’m saying Hi to the new buds, the rainy wind, the early birds and the longer days. Bring it on! The Lure of Plans. The ground…
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The season has changed since I last wrote you, and the world is opening up for us all. We’ve seen so many articles about fear of the new realities…
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It’s early morning and some street people are talking directly below my window. They are taking shelter from the rain beneath the green metal awning…
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I was hoping and believing that this whole lockdown situation was easing up. We were getting vaccines, and there was some hope floating around in the…
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What was I really asking for? When I asked Google, “How do I remove comments and track changes in a final Word document?” this list of interesting other…
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I’m opening this newsletter with Robert Macfarlane’s Word of the Day from a few days ago. It doesn’t look like that island would have a very good wifi…
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Here’s a classic family photo of the Three Sisters mountains in Canmore, Alberta. Everyone in Canmore had these photos. I saw one at my cousin’s place …
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Point of view vs point of awareness Everything goes by so fast. In these days of instantaneous immediacy there isn’t a solid footing to create any…
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Writing from the intersection of imagination and reality In my mind I set up a situation where I would write to you from liminal places each month…
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Our former old ways just aren’t holding together, and the unravelling of the binding ties carefully made back in the Age of Enlightenment are being…
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Amuse-bouche #7 This is the last in my incidental series of short bite-sized bits to take us from Solstice to Christmas and into the New Year. Happy New…
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Walking today in Jericho Park, the path was easier than I thought it would be. The rain has melted most of the week’s snow, but I was there bundled up…
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