Busy with preparations for my upcoming trip to Europe — among those preparations an important consideration being “what books to download for plane and train reading? — I’m finally posting my September Reading. Some fine memoirs for you, two tense mysteries, one tough but important work of documentary fiction, and two literary novels with domestic or family themes.
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As eager as I am to be in Paris and Rome again (especially to see and hug the overseas family members) there’s still much to enjoy right here, in the neighbourhood. For example, I could…
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As we prepare to travel again, I’ve begun to organize my box of travel journals. More than twenty little books, in a few different formats, record impressions of my travels since 2008. Before that, for…
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So, you might have read in earlier posts that we’ve made plans to head to Europe in a few weeks. I’m not saying much about that here yet, simply because travel is still fraught these…
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As I begin planning here for our first long-distance trip since 2019, I’m staying grounded by reminding myself of what there is to be seen in my own neighbourhood. As fervently as I hope that all will go well with our upcoming travel plans, I’m also aware of how vulnerable those plans are in the current context, so it seems wise to continue paying attention to the good and the beautiful and the interesting that surrounds us.
And much of that, here in Vancouver, can be found in the murals added to the landscape each year through the Vancouver Mural Festival. Before I switch my focus to far-off cities, I thought we could walk together to see the murals added to my neighbourhood.