11th
May
2007
Some things take longer than expected and some just never get done. That seems to be the story of a famous highway project here in the Quebec City area, which has stretched across the lifetime of many residents without ever getting the “finished” stamp on the blueprints. In fact, we’re now into retrograde mode for one infamous section which could be known as the bridge to nowhere.
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posted in environment |
10th
May
2007
People love flowers. We’re in full “go to the garden centre and buy” season locally, with the weekend lawn farmers busy sowing and hoeing and doing all those busy as a bee things that follow the fallow of winter. I’m a minimalist, but at an earlier stage in my job history (when I was but a seedling) I was the industrious slave of a greenhouse operator in central Ontario. I loved the work. Even if I was too early in the season to actually see the blooms, I knew what awaited the buyers from having planted thousands of those informative plastic tags in the flats of plants. I was a walking horticultural encyclopedia.
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posted in economy |
9th
May
2007
I love the images that the word spill can set off: spilled milk, or worse (spill the wine). Spilling the beans. Spilling rain. Or the one I inadvertently went through this evening: spilled grapes. It could have been a disaster.
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posted in pets |
8th
May
2007
One amazing thing about the brain is its ability to expand, like some sort of elastic knapsack, to contain an ever-increasing number of memories. At least, until it starts to leak around the seams, and the memory set drips away. That must bring sadness. I rather enjoy the number of things I can live, again and again, through the magic of mental images. I’m not sure if it counts as living vicariously, the second or third time around, but it fills up those moments in our daily lives where routine has made for memory fodder that resembles porridge.
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posted in history |
7th
May
2007
Perhaps I have spent too many hours with a camera. Note: camera, not movie camera. I see things “one step at a time”. Well, actually, one step. The idea of producing a movie of any sort leaves me bewildered. So, before we go any further, I’m calling dibs on managing the new movie guy at our house.
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posted in media |
6th
May
2007
This evening, while avoiding reruns of crime programs on TV, I learned that I have been living next to a parallel world. There is no intended oxymoron here. My life as a lonely solo musician who hates to practice has not been in vain. There are others, and they’ve found the answer.
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posted in music |
5th
May
2007
Since the risk of a seasonal relapse is now very low, I decided to roll out of bed on a weekend at my regular time and head off in search of the elusive tire changer. One of those Canadian things, where we change the rubber feet on all of our cars at precise moments each year, in search of even inflation.
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posted in economy |
4th
May
2007
Somewhere along the way in my mathematics education, a teacher explained the definition of a subset, and I so totally got it! You see, we live in a very musical world, where a hint of melody is somewhere close by all day long. Yes, especially in our heads. Ever suffer from the earworm? I thought so. Back to the subset. Think of the whole world as a set. Now step back and picture those who actually perform. Instant example.
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posted in music |
3rd
May
2007
Stirred on by a question from an old friend, I decided to finally take a look, in the techno-critical sense, at some of my first images from the new camera we purchased back at Christmas. A long time to wait, true; I will simply state that someone else has had the machine and continue merrily along.
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posted in media |
2nd
May
2007
The wheels of change turn very, very slowly when it comes to anything involving political systems. Bear witness, we still have a monarch. But more important, we might someday have a Super Monday. There’s change in the rare air around the Parliament Hill.
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