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You Were Going To Be Fantastic: Characters
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You Were Going To Be Fantastic. 1 This story is about someone named Katie, whose life hasn't turned out the way she expected it to. 2. Nothing about this story is autobiographical, except for all the stuff that is. 3. This is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. Together, you and I will tell this story. Katie's love interest. Tall, gangly, with long, skinny feet and curly blonde hair. Irish, living in Canada somewhat illegally. Emerging artist. Very kind. Melissa's "other" best friend. Tall, robust, intimida...
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To the Edge of the Sea: Slaymaker and Nichols' Olympic Circus PEI 2014
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To the Edge of the Sea. Monday, 9 June 2014. Slaymaker and Nichols' Olympic Circus PEI 2014. Prince Edward Island is celebrating and commemorating the 150th anniversary of Canada's start to Confederation in 1864. The first circus in 20 years was there - here is their advertisement from the newspapers at the time! Posted by Anne McDonald. If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the waters edge. See the link below for more info. 4 August 2015 at 00:42.
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Navigatio: September 2015
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All roads lead to books. Monday, 28 September 2015. In Japan, they have a term for the restorative time spent in nature: forest bathing. There is even a field of Japanese science called Forest Medicine, which studies how time spent in the woods benefits our immune systems. The word "bathing" is apt for the sense of being immersed in what feels like a different medium, being washed clean. I literally can't remember. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Good Places to Write. ALONE ON A BOR...
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Navigatio: Coffee Italian style
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All roads lead to books. Saturday, 7 January 2017. Coffee machine in a gas station on the way to Marco Polo airport. Although I'm not normally a coffee drinker, I've been longing for the caffe macchiato I had in Italy. I recently read an article. From https:/ oliveonblonde.wordpress.com/tag/plastic/. Somehow the waste of the paper cup and the waste of the experience are linked in my mind. Why are we North Americans so good at taking a good thing and "improving" it to the point of ruining it? You might th...
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Navigatio: October 2016
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All roads lead to books. Saturday, 29 October 2016. West Coast trail: one step in front of the other. When I wake up in the middle of night and can't get back to sleep, I lie listening to the owls calling from the tall pines down the street from our house. I read that the call of the great-horned owl has been "translated" in our language to "Are you still up? Me too." That middle of the night, nameless anxiety that I feel is both echoed and soothed by their voices, resonating into the darkness. We had be...
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Navigatio: West Coast trail: one step in front of the other
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All roads lead to books. Saturday, 29 October 2016. West Coast trail: one step in front of the other. When I wake up in the middle of night and can't get back to sleep, I lie listening to the owls calling from the tall pines down the street from our house. I read that the call of the great-horned owl has been "translated" in our language to "Are you still up? Me too." That middle of the night, nameless anxiety that I feel is both echoed and soothed by their voices, resonating into the darkness. We had be...
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Navigatio: May 2016
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All roads lead to books. Saturday, 28 May 2016. To leave the phone behind is the obvious solution. But that would mean a consciousness about the potential for these random moments of beauty that seems contradictory, un-zen. I was just out to find some sticks. I told David I'd be back in half an hour. I brought my phone along partly for safety. I did mention the picked-clean bones? One seeks and seeks but cannot find. One then gives up and the answer comes by itself." Alan Watts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Navigatio: January 2017
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All roads lead to books. Saturday, 7 January 2017. Coffee machine in a gas station on the way to Marco Polo airport. Although I'm not normally a coffee drinker, I've been longing for the caffe macchiato I had in Italy. I recently read an article. From https:/ oliveonblonde.wordpress.com/tag/plastic/. Somehow the waste of the paper cup and the waste of the experience are linked in my mind. Why are we North Americans so good at taking a good thing and "improving" it to the point of ruining it? You might th...
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Navigatio: March 2015
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All roads lead to books. Saturday, 14 March 2015. Perhaps I was wrong. As I tackle yet another revision of Sing a Worried Song. I'm comforted by John Steinbeck's letter to his editor in 1952, written as he finished East of Eden. His "armful of damp garbage" is one of my all-time favourite books. I have decided for this, my book, East of Eden, to write dedication, prologue, argument, apology, epilogue and perhaps epitaph all in one. Idling reader," Cervantes wrote, "you may believe me when I tell you that...
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To the Edge of the Sea: Battle of Batoche May 9 to 12, 1885
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To the Edge of the Sea. Friday, 10 May 2013. Battle of Batoche May 9 to 12, 1885. The Battle of Batoche ended the North-West Resistance of 1885 - and ended up with Louis Riel's surrender, and subsequent trial and hanging. It wasn't a pretty - or fair - time to say the least. You can read more information about it here. The great western Canada scholar George Stanley annotates Dumont's account. Posted by Anne McDonald. Labels: Battle of Batoche. Your article is very well done, a good read. Life is too sho...
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