What an intense beginning to October it has been. It feels like I’ve been birth canal-ed – squeezed into a ‘passage through’ from that September of structural change (schedule, mental, energetic) into this October of ‘Now, GROW’. This is the first morning of stillness after a massive storm of People and Events and I find myself … More Value
My phone is in Kingston, 200 km of driving sleet and transport trucks ago. I travel through this with my daughter from my aunt to my niece. There’s a rightness to the timing. In the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau I find a plug upstairs after the cafe closes. There’s a bench with cushions so I … More Bill Reid, Through and In
As predicted, each painting for #Selfie has had it’s own arc of becoming. They have all been surprises, have all taught me things I wouldn’t otherwise know. It’s been a privilege to be at the centre of this project and participate in the discovery, the shaping and polishing of each facet. Quite a geological process … More #Selfie 19: The Writing of Book
There’s a subtle art to avoidance – one can accomplish a great deal when motivated by discomfort with a project’s requirements: Go work out – more often. Coach at GBSS’ annual music clinic; play at elementary schools in Bruce County for GBS. Go see Art of Time’s Cadmium Red with Aruna; wander introverted and happy … More #Selfie 8: due diligence
So peaceful, this end of September 2013. In the growing dark of the season I can feel what is timeless and eternal – the breathing of the fall wind, the lap of waves on the breakwall of the harbour. The summer birds have flown, but even the starlings and chickadees that remain are asleep still, … More Ama et fac quod vis
In honour of the obscure fact that the equinox sun will be square to a little-known planet called Narcissus this Sunday, I spent an entire evening being as narcissistic as possible. I examined ten years of journals, poetry and photos, the nice way my fingernails grow, the diversity of engaging and informative titles of the … More Calmer seas
The clouds are pale indigo-violet, then a blustery bruised grey shot through with long warm lines of golden sunlight and rich blue – this sets the red reds and the yellow yellows and the living greens in brilliant, stop-in-your-tracks collaboration. I feel as though I’m watching the gods at play in a game where they … More in the dark of the moon
