Now and collectively, it is all bubbling up in our choices over shopping Canadian, our travel plans – not to the States and displaying our symbols, and other creative ways people find to love Canada.
Category: Random
Random thoughts
The Sun King and the Elephant
This reminds me of the reign and style of Louis XIV of France, The Sun King. Louis was a king by divine right, that’s how it worked in his day. Oh, Trump could only dream
Cheers all the way
This is the Rugby World Cup taking place this time in stadiums all over France. But for today, the big final, it is back to Paris in the Stade de France.
Back from the seas
I was on a trip to visit my family in England, but the twist in the tale was that I crossed the Atlantic on the Cunard Queen Mary 2. That was a posh adventure with memories of my Grandy
Cross streams at Lac La Biche
This is my painting, but In real life, the house is wider and altogether larger. I know this as it is one of my favourite places. It is the mission at Lac La Biche. Lac La Biche is a town in northeast Alberta and it is interesting in so many ways, all flowing from its location on the shores of a large lake.
Here I am, the other side of Christmas and trying to keep up
Sorry dear blog land, I have not been very present these last few days. Every time I go to write, something else happens, and apparently, I lack the discipline to not get distracted! And all that Christmas prep, it started with a ridiculous amount of baking, and then I kept giving it away so had…
Emails that take off!
I love an email thread that weaves and flies between friends going down some rabbit hole to reemerge with a new branch of ideas, facts and memories. I am involved in one at the moment. It all started with a brass rubbing of some medieval bishop of Ely Cathedral in eastern England.
Give me gruel and water!
I have had a surfeit of ceremony, soldiers, sailors, church services and the words of mourning grateful subjects. I feel like I have just eaten far too much at a wonderful banquet.
Of flags and Kings and Queens
It is called the flag at half mast, but in fact, it is about a third down. So now, with lowered flags for the Queen, I asked myself for the first time, why and since when have we been doing this?
The Pope’s in town
The Pope is in Edmonton to meet First Nations people and to apologize for the harm and cruelty inflicted on Indigenous children in the Residential Schools and the multi generational trauma coming from this.