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.
. . . While life’s perhaps not as busy as it was before I retired — or, at least, the Busy isn’t Obligatory Busy-ness — last week I was molto impegnata, molto occupata (Very Busy! using two…
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As I explained in last month’s book post, going forward I will no longer be posting photos of my handwritten journal pages, but rather will transcribe those entries — pretty much verbatim — here. I’ll…
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Temperatures here have been gradually falling over the last couple of weeks, mostly sunny days with highs in the low 20s (C), sometimes hitting 25 in the early to mid-afternoon. The kind of late-summer, early-fall…
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