Face Photos from Readers
Thanks to John Whitman for this slightly dismayed face from downtown Ottawa.
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Posted: 2025 Apr 04
Category Archives: Through the Calendar
Love Never Fails
The over-abundance of tacky Valentine’s Day gifts leads to musings about the true nature of love. Continue reading
Try It – You’ll Like It
Trying new foods? Forget that! How about trying some old foods again, for the first time? Being the 12th and last of a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. In late November, just … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Russel(l)s
Being the 11th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. Moving with all the assurance of successful middle age, he walks to the front of the church and sits in the first pew. The … Continue reading
Cardinal Alert
Being the 10th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. A peripheral-vision flash of red catches the centre of my attention. One of the cardinals living somewhere in the adjacent linear park flits into … Continue reading
Cleaned Out
Being the 9th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. For those of us with the tidiness gene/impulse/obsession, this is a great time of year, when we can indulge in socially sanctioned tidying. Better … Continue reading
Posted in Thinking Broadly, Through the Calendar
Tagged Christmas, Critical Thinking, New Years
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Back to the Future
Looking ahead 60 to 70 years, our children and grandchildren will live in an amazingly different world that we cannot begin to predict. But, as Dandridge Cole wrote, although we cannot predict the future, we can invent it. Continue reading
A Year in the Life
With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, there are years seasonal and calendrical, fiscal and liturgical, astronomical and academic(al). A year by any other name is not The Same, ranging in length by about 21 days (draconitic to sidereal, per Wiki). Continue reading
Alpha Bravo Charlie
Being the 6th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas Alpha, bravo, Charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, India, Juliet, kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, papa, Quebec, Romeo, sierra, tango, uniform, victor, whiskey, x-ray, … Continue reading
Maybe Next Week
Being the 5th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. Standing in front of the candy counter, clutching my weekly allowance, I look longingly at the Cherry Blossom. Packaged in its own stylish box, … Continue reading