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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2024 May 11
Prose of the Week
"This is the way of providence: dandelions in abundance that give pleasure by their beauty and create fun for children who blow the seeds everywhere. I think it is a kind of proof of original sin that whenever we are given something in abundance, we are not grateful but instead invent some silly category to tarnish these gifts simply because they are common. We call them weeds: invasive species. . . . If dandelions were only found on obscure Pacific islands, people would book eco-tours to see them, and all the best magazines would contain sermons masquerading as articles on how global warming, overpopulation, warm houses, and free markets threaten endangered dandelions."Source: Being Perfect, by David Beresford; Gilbert Magazine, Volume 24, Number 3, Jan/Feb 2021
Posted: 2024 May 11
Poetry of the Week
The Dandelions
- Helen Gray ConeUpon a showery night and still,
Without a sound of warning,
A trooper band surprised the hill,
And held it in the morning.We were not waked by bugle-notes,
No cheer our dreams invaded,
And yet, at dawn, their yellow coats
On the green slopes paraded.We careless folk the deed forgot;
Till one day, idly walking,
We marked upon the self-same spot
A crowd of veterans talking.They shook their trembling heads and gray
With pride and noiseless laughter;
When, well-a-day! they blew away,
And ne'er were heard of after!Posted: 2024 May 11
Music of the Week
Tweet of the Week
Posted: 2024 May 11
I’m starting a support group for people who didn’t see the Northern Lights last night.
We are valid. Stop erasing our existence
Any joiners
This is our flag pic.twitter.com/sCIpt5rSNn
— Helen Nettleship (@Nettleshippy) May 11, 2024
Category Archives: Mid-Week Movies
Movie #24: The 12 Days of Christmas – 2019
Merry Christmas! Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Laughing Frequently, Music Videos, Nature Videos
Tagged Beaches, Birds, Bridges, Buildings, Christmas, Flowers, Pareidolia, Skies, Trees
20 Comments
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Movie #23: The Birds
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Fit at 70: Update #4
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Mid-Week Movie #22: Batdog!
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Mid-Week Movie #21: Christmas 2018
#Christmasclassic meets my own way of living in Ottawa. Continue reading
Fit at 70: Update #3
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In Memory
Honour, if not glory. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Event Videos, Feeling Clearly, Photos of Built Stuff, Through History
Tagged Citizenship, History, Military
8 Comments
USMCA
Karaoke version to follow? Continue reading