One of my favourite Van Morrison songs goes as follows: “Hark now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly…into the Mystic.” Today I am about to take my first official ferry ride for my new job. Yes, I have...
One of my favourite authors, Paulo Coelho, wrote “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples in a soaking joy.” A romantic, and truly lovely view of rain (and of course, love). I cannot think of a more beautiful, magical sentence, can you? I...
In An Essay On Man, Alexander Pope writes Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is, but always will be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. There is always hope! While passing through beautiful Hope,...
Today’s Globe and Mail carried an article by photographer Ian Brown entitled “Humanity takes millions of photos every day. Why are most forgettable?” In his article Brown reveals that he was recently on a panel of judges for the Banff Mountain...
On this New Year’s Eve I thought T.S. Eliot’s quote from his poem “Little Gidding” an appropriate title for this my last post of 2011. The section of the poem that is quoted on New Year’s Eve goes as follows: “For last year’s...
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