This Christmas might be the first white Christmas for all of Canada since 1971. To celebrate, I’d like to point you to my friend Jeremy Hiebert’s stunning collection of photos of ice from Lake Okanagan. This is not a photo collection, it is a poem of the highest order. Sit still and watch the slideshow fill your eyes with the wonder of this earth. And to accent it here is a poem from me, using the wonderful language of ice: Crawl to the edge of the fast ice where the ice front holds still as the pancakes …
This week in the feed: Rob Paterson concludes his harvest of the Boyd Conference on a pessimistic yet exhuberant note. Staffordshire Oat Cakes and Easy No Knead Bread Brad Ovenell-Carter’s medieval teaching methods. Michael Herman distills work he and I did for a few years into a poem and an offering. Steve Moore tweets a great story of mutual aid
Please…hotel and catering companies of the world, please stop serving melon slices when what you are trying to serve is “fruit plates.” I spend huge amounts of my life eating catered food. Most of the food that is served at meetings, while it may be prepared with varying degrees of care (and let’s be honest, most of that is minimal) it is certainly grown on an industrial scale. In the last ten years there has been a trend away from serving pastries for breakfast and more towards serving a selection of fruit. While this seems like a good …
It is snowing heavily here in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and most people are doing what people here do when it snows like this – staring at it, making comments to each other and abandoning their plans for getting home on time. Heavy snow here can bring out irritation and anger, but today I have been struck by how beautiful people look. There is a lot of smiling and laughing and radiance today. Dunno why it seems that way, but I like it. I’m falling deeply in like with everyone I meet this afternoon! …
A dear friend of mine, Chris Coon, has just released an album of music inspired by the Odyssey. Called “License to Depart” it’s a very cool album featuring a bunch of well known Bowen Island musicians and Chris’s distinctive guitar, drums and David Sylvian inspired vocals. I contributed some flute fills to the track Odysseus Gates, which you can hear at his MySpace page. Its a mix of prog rock, ambient wash and whimsey. You can hear more tracks and find out more at his website.