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Photo Memory of the Week
Cloud of the Week
Ladies and gentlemen, meet this week's cloud(s). I stumbled across it while walking to a clematis-site sighting from the previous day. By the time I got somewhere without any intervening tree branches, the cloud and the colours had moved on.
Place: Calgary
Posted: 2026 Oct 09Read my posts about clouds: here and here
Read knowledgeable stuff about clouds: here
Music of the Week
Quotes of the Week
Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answersIn tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.This could be our last winter, it could be manyMore, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:Do what you must, be wise, cut your vinesAnd forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair.
- Horace's Ode I:11Posted: Oct 08
Tag Archives: Storytellers
Glory Or
From Alfred to George to Mehitabel: Give ’em hell. Or words to that effect. Continue reading
Author, Author
Another unknown famous Canadian. Continue reading
Bad Choices; Good Outcomes
Pragmatic advice that respects the limits of human memory and, maybe, the limits of human cognition. Continue reading
Posted in New Perspectives, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Musicians, Storytellers, Technology
12 Comments
One Step One Leap
Perspectives from the half-century mark. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Thinking Broadly, Through History, Through Space
Tagged History, Science, Skies, Storytellers, Technology
15 Comments
Leo and Presley and Poe
Tales of death and birth. Continue reading
Posted in Another Thing, Laughing Frequently, Mortality, Through History
Tagged Artists, Community, Death, Musicians, Storytellers
4 Comments
Sixth
Misery loves company. Continue reading
National Treasure #171: Thomas King
Multi-ethnic, self-identified aboriginal and dual citizen: Nothing about Thomas King is boring. Continue reading
National Treasure #139: Pierre Berton
Yukoner who never suffered from writer’s block. Continue reading
National Treasure #137: Terry O’Reilly
Advertising insider. Continue reading