The house is a mess. The kids have been watching too much TV. I've been eating too much Christmas chocolate. The effects of Christmas (a.k.a. gift wrap, decorations, gifts, extra food) are strewn around the house like land bound flotsam and jetsam. I'm feeling argumentative and frustrated and … [Read more...] about Perspective & the Problems of Privilege
A wild time in pictures
I recently wrote a post about wild time. Wild time and the wilderness have much in common, they’re both “everlasting, undefined, unenclosed, unnamed, a mystery”. Here's what everyday can feel like. Here's what wild time can feel like. I drew this in my journal on my recent trip to … [Read more...] about A wild time in pictures
When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last three posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper, Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How … [Read more...] about When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
This thing called time: Tokyo time
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last two posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper and Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How … [Read more...] about This thing called time: Tokyo time
This thing called time part 2
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last post I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper. Accompanying Jay’s article is a bold headline … [Read more...] about This thing called time part 2
This thing called time
Coming back from working in Africa for a month I’ve been thinking about time a lot. A lot. Time flowed thicker there. I was swept up in its meandering current. I delighted in its unpredictability. Slipping back into the stream at home in Canada I observe myself getting annoyed if someone takes … [Read more...] about This thing called time
How old are your ideals?
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind… Nobody grows old by merely a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. (Poet Samuel Ullman, from his poem 'Youth', as quoted in Gods and Soldiers, the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.) How old are your ideals? For … [Read more...] about How old are your ideals?
Musings on Africa; cookie dough, screech owls, bumper cars & matatus
Back in chilly, wet Vancouver. Remembering. Recent musings from Africa. I watched some weaverbirds making nests while running on the treadmill the other morning. Picking up twigs from the children's playground they industriously wove them together. I marvel that they make 5-6 nests for every … [Read more...] about Musings on Africa; cookie dough, screech owls, bumper cars & matatus
