I’ve been wrestling with a very low mood again this weekend, and without boring you (and giving up all my privacy) with details, I’ll just say that once this creeps in, it becomes physical, something between…
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Pater has been away all week; he comes back today, and I’ll admit that I didn’t get nearly everything done that I’d hoped to do in my time alone. But lists have been whittled down;…
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You know how much I like street art, right? So guess how delighted I was to stumble upon the Lovejoy Columns when wandering Portland’s Pearl District one sunny afternoon last month! The sun and shadow,…
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For an opera as splendid as Turandot, especially when produced this sumptuously, one really should dress up a bit. But the practicalities of walking to the Skytrain stop through Saturday night’s significant rainfall couldn’t be…
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Okay, these photos really have nothing to do with the text of this post — except that they testify to the compensations an urban lifestyle offers against the reduction of space it cost us. .…
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