Summer Stage #9, Saturday 23 July 2016--That's Cyrano de Bergerac, the literary character, talking about his nose. Cyrano de Bergerac, the playwright, also had his literary character talk about an imaginative way he got to the moon. In July1969, I studied a play based on de Bergerac's writing. I was wrapping up studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, taking two drama courses. …
Summer Stage #8, Saturday 16 July 2016--What to do with the treasures you've collected over the years? Enriched by, not captive to, possessions Our lives would be so much the poorer without the things we collect and prize. Having and creating things is part of what makes us human, said English artist Michael Landy. Yet, get …
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Summer Stage #7, Sunday 10 July--Who doesn't love a weeded garden or flower bed? Sure, there'll be the odd person who'll speak up for all plants, including weeds, and that's good. But that's not the most popular position. No weeding would spell chaos, right? To hoe or not to hoe, now that's the question Let them …
Summer Stage #6, Saturday 2 July 2016--A family of turtles stage their summer play. They climb on a log, and on each other, bask in the bright light, and on queue scoot off stage. A turtle is a reptile with a toothless, sheathed jaw, inhabiting a bony or cartilaginous shell. There are 18 turtle species in …
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Summer Stage #5, Saturday 25 June 2016--Endings, beginnings, interludes, uncertainties--no one word captures the drama of change we see all around. Something better lies just around the corner, we say, if only we'd find that corner. Thankfully we do have heartening precedents and prospects. It's just the present that stumps us. One "sure thing" precedent for …
Continue reading For the love of birds, end of school, boat launch, UK Referendum . . .
Summer Stage #4, Sunday 19 June 2016--Who doesn't prefer natural sounds over noise? (One of our computers is getting repaired and that prevents me from downloading photos from this week. I'll add a few from the file to this shorter blog.) On Friday's walk we heard birds singing, water coursing over a creek dam, a breeze soughing through …
Summer Stage #3, Saturday, 11 June 2016--First, let's get the week's strange weather scene off center stage right away. We had two cold days followed by a mighty hot weekend. So it was, so it is, so be it. Lights out. Scene over. Not so fast. How can one treat the weather so summarily? Here's a quote from …
Summer Stage #2, Sunday, 5 June 2016--There's drama aplenty down on the farm, what with tending crops and gardens, looking after newborn lambs, calves and colts, and making hay. That's what we saw in LaGrange County, next door to Elkhart County, where we spent two nights with Gerald and Mary (Marty's sister) Miller at their cottage on …
Summer Stage #1, Sunday 29 May 2016--Imagine that you're a child again. Imagine that you climb into a wardrobe. Imagine that you go through the wardrobe into a jaw-dropping, enchanting new world. You're in Narnia. Yes Narnia. You're at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ontario watching The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. You and your three …
TLC #1, 22 May 2016--I've chosen the Tender Loving Care moniker to describe, roughly at least, a new blog series to follow up Cornwall Cogitations. While care of the earth and the universe, including self and others, is bigger than even the word daunting suggests, it's a journey. I hope that what I have to say includes …
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