Feb 26
Our dear, first-found cat, Lucky, took his final breath as he lay silently between us in bed on the afternoon of Thursday, February 20.
Lucky was a singular cat who made a cat-lover out of me against all odds.
Read moreInternational Human Rights Day, 2020
The byline for this year’s theme is Stand up for Human Rights
And on this day in Canada, 212 elected representatives in the House of Commons stood up, one by one, to poison the spring from which the spirit of human rights flows. One by one, 212 drops of poison.
Read moreA long and wiry man perches high above my head, chainsaw in hand. I know little about him, except that his name is Lee and he and his bride are homesteading half a mile down the road from my coastal home. Read more
A slow pan to a classic frame. A solitary man stands on high ground in evening light, surveying land, sky, and settlement. The soundtrack is subtle but arresting: distant wind, giving way to the soft but urgent tapping of a single atmospheric note, then a persistent throb of airy, fluttering strings. Read more
A reptilian head appears from behind a large rock. Curious to decipher a species quite unlike the now-familiar collared lizard or whiptail, I sharpen my focus. And sharply, the threshold question is settled. This is a snake. Read more
It’s the scale of it all that first assaults the mind.
Four and a half minutes into his January 9 TEDx talk – “The true cost of oil” – Garth Lenz projects an image of a 400 ton dump truck loaded with bitumen from the Alberta tar sands. Read more
Writing augments life. That has been my experience. All that I see and feel, all that I think and know – it’s all better when I write. Writing slows me, clears me, heartens me.
Hence this blog. Read more
The fragile and the wild 