Photo Memory of the Week
Poetry of the Week
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!Source: A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican, Dixon Lanier Merritt
Posted: 2023 Mar 17
Music of the Week
Posted: 2023 Mar 24
Tweet of the Week
Australia plotted by every mapped stream and river... all 1.3 million of them pic.twitter.com/7sx7LgemOM
— Amazing Maps (@amazingmap) March 11, 2023
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622 @JonathanWNV @PattyHajdu Mar 24 and there are 32 long term advisories, 23 short term advisories, and an additional 21 advisories in BC. The Kinookimaw Nation is on track to have their DNC go long term next month. They deserve better than this.
"Meanderthal: A person who walks particularly slowly and aimlessly..."
Words Worth Noting - March 25, 2023 https://thejohnrobson.com/blog/2023/3/25/words-worth-noting-march-25-2023
“I always believed in the theory that the poor are ordinary human beings. But I shall never forget the moment of shattering astonishment when I discovered that they really were.” #GKChesterton
https://mailchi.mp/chesterton/lent20230325?e=5f14670eceAlso, lovely to see parliamentary guard Sam Son here today. He was injured while defending Centre Block against the 2014 gunman who stormed Parliament.
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