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Category Archives: travel
Golden Hour
“But in the midst of all that is, was or ever will be, there is a light that keeps shining, reaching us from far away.” – Sasha Sagan After an unexpected and very deadly heatwave that enveloped the West Coast … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged air, art, beauty, city, climate change, golden hour, Granville Island Market, heat dome, Imagine Van Gogh, kites, local, patio, Summer, vagaries, Vancouver, writing
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Words Travel
“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, a weekend that was supposed to be awash in moody rain. Yesterday’s walk required an umbrella although I didn’t mind – the nearby … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged beauty, breathe, forest, joy, love, meditation, ocean, retreat, rewilding, stretch, Tigh-Na-Mara, travel, trees, Vancouver Island, words travel
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Time Travel
“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” – John Steinbeck After reading a fellow blogger’s wonderful post (a bunch of old bus tickets) about saving her bus tickets meant for recycling in order to … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged bus tickets, Covid-19, ephemera, fragrance, inspiration, journal, journeys, memories, nostalgia, offerings, port-key, souvenirs, tea, time travel, wandering
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Pause
“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” – T.S. Eliot On a night of rain and whiskey, the raindrops and burn keep worry away during watershed days after the pandemic announcement that has stilled the world. … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged art, Covid-19, dancing, meditating, normalcy, pause, rain, safety, social distancing, Spring, stillness, walking, wanders, whiskey, words
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Broken Clouds
“Not All Storms Come To Disrupt Your Life…Some Come To Clear Your Path – Goalcast New windows have been installed in our apartment rental and on rainy evenings I’ve noticed a different rhythm, a staccato beat as the drops strike … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged Covid-19, forest, homesteading, hope, hunkering down, journey, love, nature, ocean, pandemic, pathways, prayer, recipes, retreat, sanctuary
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Deep Time
“ Thou art the journey and the journey’s end.” – Michael Mayne Dean 1986-96, noted in Westminster Abbey, London, England. Our time in London was spent in a beautiful family-owned modern flat in the Docklands area near North Greenwich – … Continue reading
Shard
A piece of the world fell today in the form of an ink-black crow, falling swiftly upon a city grate its voice silenced forever. Other pieces fall in the form of fire supplanting summer’s eternal beauty, fall in the form of … Continue reading
London Calling (Nov/Dec)
“A pub can be a magical place” – Rhys Ifan (a lovely quote found on a signboard at the George Pub in London, UK) The scent of sweet maple and evergreen commingle on dry November days not seen in decades … Continue reading
Crows & Leaves
“On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.” – Basho It’s the first day that feels like fall – we woke to a tropical-like rainfall that fell in cool, misty sheets rendering the dark green forest in … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, crows, enchantment, forest, gifts, harvest, leaves, light, loss, magic, rememberance, seasons, storms, trees, wind
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Longing
“ Every leaf speaks bliss to me. Fluttering from the autumn tree.” – Emily Bronte, “Fall , Leaves, Fall” During the last days of summer, I decided a wander through the tiny garden patchwork of our neighbourhood and the still … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, bliss, breathe, joy, light, longing, magic, mounted horses, Narnia, stanley park, tea, transition, trees, Urban Forest Cafe, writing
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