Redux: Tortoises
Another long-term vision and project.
Tag: Purpose
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.
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 to anything. Snip snip. A long, skinny twig growing sideways …
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 and local authorities to abandon a highway project building a …
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 be true. After all, I’ve read it on any number …
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.
You in Your Small Corner…
A reflection on gardeners who gladden my heart with their plantings of yesteryear, now grown to magnificent maturity. 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 …