Category Archives: Rambles

Bits and pieces provoked by moving through space, history, and the calendar.

Back to the Future

Posted on 01 January 2012 by Isabel Gibson

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 →

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A Year in the Life

Posted on 31 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

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 →

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Alpha Bravo Charlie

Posted on 30 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

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 →

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Maybe Next Week

Posted on 29 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

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 →

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Miracle at Checkout 9

Posted on 28 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Being the 4th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. My line, which had looked so promising — only one person ahead of me, with a light load of groceries — has come to … Continue reading →

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The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

The 3rd in a miscellany of short posts marking the 12 days of Christmas. Around about the turn of the millennium, I forwarded an email warning to my sons. I meant well, honestly. What it concerned I can’t remember: cell … Continue reading →

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Familiarity

Posted on 26 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Being the 2nd of a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. Standing at the window, I gasp in utter shock. The women gathered in the kitchen behind me stop chatting to ask, in some concern, … Continue reading →

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Olive, the Other Reindeer

Posted on 25 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Being the 1st of a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. Wiki reports that ‘many sources’ believe the ‘partridge in a pear tree’ line in the 12 Days of Christmas to be a mistranscription or … Continue reading →

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It’s Blue. It’s Imported.

Posted on 18 December 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Sometimes, what we know changes how we look at things; sometimes how we look at things changes what we know. Continue reading →

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