Stitching, Pre-Travel to Post-Travel . . .

I don’t know about you, but it takes me almost as long to recover my regular daily rhythm and activities AFTER travelling as it did to plan and prepare for the trip. But a little bear has got me back to my knitting, at least. And reminded me that I still haven’t shown you another Little Creature that swam off my needles before we left mid-April.

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Outfits I’ve Worn Lately (and now it might — woot! woot! — be too warm for!)

Why is this woman (Yep, that’s me) smiling and waving? Might be because summer is belatedly arriving in Vancouver. . . . But before I pull all my linen dresses from the closet, let me show you the outfits that have got me through these last cool and rainy weeks.

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Random Observations From a Still-Sexagenarian

As I reach the end of my 60s, I’ve had some recurrent thoughts about ageing, mortality, my worth, my legacy, I suppose. . . And I’ve set them down rather randomly to share, to see if any of these resonate. Also shared a little goal I have for that Big Birthday looming on next year’s horizon. . Curious? Click through to read on, please.

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May Reading

A bookstore in Palermo — I never did get inside, but maybe next time. . . I did, however, do a fair bit of reading last month, in Sicily and once we got back home. I have a few recommendations, for travel or for snuggling in your armchair or swinging gently in your hammock . . .

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Back to Sicily, on a Sunday. . .

One afternoon last month, we stepped from the noisy bustle of Palermo’s Via Maqueda into the quiet hallowed space of a Baroque chapel where I sketched and we drank in the restorative architectural beauty and the deep resonance of centuries of use. Join me for a few minutes in revisiting that well of peace again?

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