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Month: August 2014

Crossing lines, history lessons and the light on Main Street

Posted onAugust 29, 2014Leave a comment

  After attending the memorial exhibit to immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, Margaret and I talked about our shared immigrant histories. The memory of three and five year olds is limited but the birth Read More …

Pouring coffee, gas pumps, glimpses and connections

Posted onAugust 26, 2014August 25, 2014Leave a comment

The coloured stones and bonding concrete carry oral tradition in the Halls Harbour hood. The house, a depression era make work project reflects love of work and worker. The cement plant employees sustained by building Read More …

Tide, time and the rhythm of rest

Posted onAugust 25, 2014August 25, 2014Leave a comment

There are really three important things that emerged between the morning and evening of the days in the maritimes. The first was the nurturing and nourishing cycle of tides that produces both the verdant fields Read More …

On the Road — From Soup to Nuts!

Posted onAugust 21, 2014August 23, 20142 Comments

On a journey that has logged over 8000 kilometres there are those events that inspire and take your breath away but there are also those moments that will alter the universe forever. To get perspective Read More …

Pipe Organs, the Ceiling of Heaven and Exits

Posted onAugust 19, 20141 Comment

On a church readograph in Sault Ste Marie there was this text,”Why didn’t Noah swat two mosquitoes?” The absence of the miniature vampires from the earth would sure make camping a lot more relaxed. The Read More …

Parades, pageants, promenades and profiteroles!

Posted onAugust 18, 2014Leave a comment

Between the parades and the warning signs there is this irreverent tendency to poke fun at normal cautions. Margaret is jesting on the edge of a 40 foot drop on the walls of the Citadel. Read More …

Meeting as if for the first time and forever

Posted onAugust 16, 20141 Comment

There are times when you can walk into a room and continue a conversation after a week, year or decade absence and it simultaneously feels like you were always there and yet there is a Read More …

Penitentiaries, recording studios and family

Posted onAugust 12, 2014August 12, 2014Leave a comment

The gates of Kingston Penitentiary are closed. The oldest incarceration chamber is permanently closed. The doors, as ominous now as ever, are bereft of invitation. It was Friday evening and as I drove by, my Read More …

Free Car Wash and a Shoe Shine

Posted onAugust 9, 2014August 9, 20142 Comments

We were driving around Kingston looking for a place to spray the blood of a thousand northern Ontario bugs off the Westphalia and the navigation software pointed us to an operator on Rigney Street.  Now Read More …

Watergate, water wheels, water mills, water falls and other drips.

Posted onAugust 8, 2014August 9, 2014Leave a comment

The inked and linked Ottawa anecdotes are dammed behind escarpments of history and when a snippet leaks from a Senate chamber or a tour guide reminds us that this is a sensitive and caring multicultural Read More …

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