Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 May 17
Face Photos from Readers
Thanks to John Whitman for this slightly dismayed face from downtown Ottawa.
This space is available for other submissions.
Tag Archives: Purpose
Redux: Tortoises
Another long-term vision and project. Continue reading
Life’s Purpose & Dead Raccoons
Thinking about my life purpose, with some help from a poet, an author/theologian/educator, a priest, and a butter sculptor. Continue reading
Snip Snip
Pruning trees – the activity, the judgement required, the variables – is a metaphor for deciding where to put my own life energies: which branches to keep, and which will never amount to anything. This one will never come … Continue reading
To Be? That is the Question
An article about elk advocates – no, strike that, “elf advocates” – gives me a whole new way to think about who I am. Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission … Continue reading
Time’s Winged Chariot
Life’s too short: a philosophy that fits neatly on a t-shirt and that resonates easily for anyone asked to drink cheap wine. Life’s too long: that takes a little more space and effort to explore. Life’s too short. It must … Continue reading
Working This Weekend?
Now, you can argue about the wisdom of messing with the environment on any scale. But what hit me was his sense of working on — of belonging to — a noble and enduring endeavour that would last well beyond his lifetime. Continue reading
You in Your Small Corner…
Driving over the bridge across the canal, I enter the stretch of this artery that is — to my Western Canadian sensibilities — just a few feet too narrow for four lanes of traffic zooming to and from the downtown. … Continue reading