Wednesday on the Web: 12 July Edition
BC Wildfires As you can imagine, much of my reading in the past week has focused on the wildfires in BC. I wrote a post … Read more
Creativity
Turning the Calendar to a New Year
Today we went for a walk along the estuary, the sun bright on an atypically frosty west coast day. The air was redolent with the … Read more
Celebrating the Ordinary
Writers and other artists are often exhorted to cram their lives with a range of experiences to create fertile ground for generating creative ideas. These … Read more
If You Go Out in the Woods Today…: Wildness & Writing
This morning I went for a walk in the woods. Taken at face value, there’s really nothing special about that statement. But add in the … Read more
Working hard versus doing too much
Lately I’ve been doing Too Much. What tipped me off? Because last week I slept for almost 29 hours straight, with a couple of breaks … Read more
Life Without Filters (or: Perhaps I'm Just a Luddite)
Last week I was at dog training with one of our flat-coated retrievers when the instructor asked if I had a photo of our German … Read more
Cut, Sew, Press: A Meditation on Quilting
Yesterday after my daily dog walk in the woods (always on the lookout for bears and cougars), I considered doing some writing, quilting, or photography. … Read more
The Invention of Nature: Serendipity, Early Scientists, and Modern Ideas
I recently read an article in The New York Times that described serendipity not as a random stroke of luck, which we usually perceive it … Read more
Searching for silence
6 am is the best time to be up in our neighbourhood, especially on a Sunday morning. Sometimes the rooster across the street crows, but … Read more
Creativity and diversity
I spent last weekend re-acquainting myself with the downtown streets of my adopted hometown, a city I moved to at 17 to attend university. At … Read more
