This photo, which I took yesterday at dusk, captures some of what I’ve been feeling lately: a sense of, to use my big words, liminal plenitude. An almost paradisical fullness here, beauty and comfort abounding,…
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Another Wednesday, another series of photos. This week, let me share the view over the Salish Sea from “my beach,” and then take you for a morning walk ’round our little island in the Pacific…
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A quick post to recommend a must-see film, Simon Curtis’s Woman in Gold, based on the true story of Maria Altmann’s efforts to recover Gustav Klimt’s portrait of her aunt from Vienna’s Belvedere Gallery. The elderly…
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Interestingly, but probably not surprisingly, my reading patterns mirror my personality as clearly as most of my other behaviour patterns. Perhaps even more so. Duty struggles with pleasure, goals struggle against random temptations, and a…
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We’ve just had the loveliest nine days of family visits. First this sweetheart brought her parents (my son and dear daughter-in-law) along for an extended weekend, and my brother and his wife dropped in for…
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