September 2012

words

Finding what isn’t there…..

“A good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang.” – Ellen DeGeneres. I have always been fascinated with psychic phenomena.  Maybe it’s because reality can be a little boring – day in day out.  I guess that’s why we have to work at making reality magical or surreal. Science and hard core facts need […]

Art

“Never, never, never give up…”

This is a quotation from Winston Churchill. It formed the opening lines of the president’s address to the graduating class at Dalhousie 2012. And here is a video of the amazing proof of this belief. You will need Kleenex. He sings The Rose, but that’s not all there is. Have a very successful day!!

poetry

Cracks…..

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen, who will be 79 on Sept 21. And he’s still cracking – err – cranking it out!!! Here is the first part of the poem- Anthem – The birds they sangAt the break of dayStart againI heard them sayDon’t dwell

poetry

They also serve…

One of my favourite quotations is – “They also serve who only stand and wait.” It’s from a poem by John Milton entitled “On His Blindness.”  There are so many times when I have had to wait – in line, on the phone, on the computer…. or I see people waiting and I can’t help

unicorns

Go-Daddy – went…..

It always amazes me that as soon as you create something – there is something out there that wants to destroy it.  Maybe this is just basic physics, in that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction – so create something interesting and those who are bored will find a way to

poetry

“Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things….”

I follow a lot of posts and blogs by knitting designers because I am interested in what they are doing and where they get their design inspiration. Today a very famous designer and teacher, Cat Bordhi posted and I realized that she had named her blog site – “Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things.“ Well, this

hiking, travel

Holiday Spirits

There is something incredibly awesome about this place.  There are no mountains – just high land and lake – huge lake and rock – so much rock that you wonder if there is anything else except rock and trees and water. It was when I went to see the pictographs that I realized what else

hiking, travel

Thunder Bay

We left last Friday August 31 to drive our daughter to Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and tomorrow we will head back to TO.  It’s been a great trip!!! The drive for the most part is spectacular with gorgeous views of Lake Superior and the highlands. Thunder Bay has a lovely waterfront park and the

unicorns

KD, Gold Fish and the fine art of parenting…

OK I raised my kids on Gold Fish crackers and KD – that’s Kraft Dinner not K. D. Lang.  Some say that if you have a child until the age of seven, you have them for life and I think that they must be right, because my 30-year-old still eats KD and my daughter at 20, bought

Food, reality, words

Garlic for what ails you….

I have a bilingual garlic keeper. OK I live in Canada, but to my knowledge I don’t think that I am required, by law, to have a garlic keeper that’s bilingual. Now maybe if I lived in Quebec, I might have to, or maybe it would be uni-lingual – French. Anyway, I have always loved

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