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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
National Treasure #129: Alice Munro
Master of the contemporary short story. Continue reading
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National Treasure #128: Richard Wagamese
First Nations author. Continue reading
National Treasure #102: Mordechai Richler
Novelist, essayist, social critic. Continue reading
National Treasure #101: Stuart McLean
Thanks to a Canadian storyteller. Continue reading
National Treasure #93: Michael Ondaatje
An immigrant poet, novelist, film-maker, editor and teacher. Continue reading
National Treasure #79: Randy Bachman
Canada’s best music-industry raconteur. Continue reading
National Treasure #50: Rex Murphy
Rex Murphy: Newfoundlander, Rhodes scholar, sometime boozer, and voice of Canada. Continue reading
National Treasure #42: Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies, Canada’s “man of letters.” Continue reading
National Treasure #27: Pauline Johnson
Pauline Johnson or Tekahionwake – a quintessentially Canadian poet. Continue reading