Yesterday was a stunningly beautiful day in Paris — we had enjoyed a glorious sleep-in, our first good sleep since arriving at Heathrow on Wednesday, facilitated by the quiet in our apartment, and so didn’t…
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Besides the sunshine and the cold, but gorgeous, blue skies, there’s much to please in winter here right now — I’ve mentioned before that I planted the garden partially to conquer the drears of the…
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Still working to find the happy. And it’s here, in small doses, if I look hard. Light on the horizon and all that. Evidence that even in winter there will be life — these Mahonia…
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Although I don’t want to dwell on it too much, because it impinges on others’ privacy, I’ve been grappling with some intense, if occasional, sadness lately, sadness that seems to hit regularly on weekends when…
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Last night’s 70-kilometre/hour winds tested the tarping system covering our roof. Paul was out there in the afternoon, re-attaching the tarp in various spots where the winds had torn it away, and there were several…
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