The Ecotone wiki, a collaborative project by bloggers who write about place, gets it’s official launch this week with a collection of essays about how we all came to write about place. My contribution, from my Bowen Island Journal, is about how I began to see the world through the eyes of an exile while I was living in England as a kid. Others at the Ecotone wiki seem to also be drawing on both their childhood experiences and experiences of moving, and being dislocated as some point in their lives. I think it is this dislocation that gives us …
Happy Birthday to me! I was born 35 years ago today. This what else was happening that late spring day in 1968: Picasso paints the above picture Young soldier in Vietnam wrote home about losing his camera Nine people were killed by a tornado in Tracy, Minnesota A Day of Awareness, Day of Hope is held in Atlanta to combat poverty A helicopter crew dies in Vietnam when they collide with another plane Phelim O’Neil is expelled from the Orange Order in Belfast for attending a Catholic service The BeeGees record Indian Gin and Whiskey Dry The Shah of Iran …
Jack Ricchiuto posts some thoughts on happiness to which I responded with some of the following in his comments: The greatest gift I can give my children is being with them. Two days ago I spent two hours with my two year old son during which I said nothing. I simply sat on the grass with him, at his eye level and played whatever he wanted to play. I expressed no desires or needs of my own, I imposed no agenda on him. We laughed together and when our wrestling got out of hand and he got hurt I held …