Babies everywhere.
I heard a friend’s daughter, almost 2 whole years old, sing a Tulip song to me on the phone.
Such songs our mothers sang to us, not long ago those baby voices were us.
Mispronounced and two pitches high, squeaky charm did get us by.
This friend I talk of, one of many mothers, I’ve known […]
My brother Geoff watched a documentary on BBC about a Pizzly bear.
Normally, polar bears and grizzly bears would have never crossed paths. Polar bears live in the Arctic, sleep during the summer and hunt during the winter. By contrast, grizzly bears live far south of the Arctic where the grass is green. They eat during […]
5 minutes to 10 pm. I found a pack of wild flower seeds in a pocket of a jacket I hadn’t worn in years. Behind our house, the garden our land lord tamed into two square frames looked peaceful in the moonlight. I went out and got a rake.
“Plenty of sun and 1/4 inch deep” […]
Shocked and sad. I don’t know how valid the news is. I saw it on a news feeder. He’s a musician I looked up to…
The mum I work for got on a taxi.
She swore she saw it; a spider web, stretching from the driver’s shoulder to the window shield.
She saw the spider too, hard at work, but not any more hard of a worker than the taxi driver.
Why is it that there are classes dedicated to speaking, but not to listening? Listening is half the conversation, and if anything, more difficult to do well.
To listen well is to understand the speaker’s point of view, unbiased, using all you can to try to put yourself in his/her shoes.
Today is father’s day. Maybe we […]
My 4 year old laptop wouldn’t start up, it hasn’t woken up since Monday. I think it’s time to say good bye to Sebastian.
Not sure if it’s lack of technology or a conniving business plan that gives computers such a short life span. 1 computer year doesn’t have to averages 20 human years?
The baby I […]
The first time I heard How High the Moon by Ella Fitzgerald was 4 years ago. She sang the longest scat I’ve heard. Ella instantly became my queen.After listening to it over and over again, I can finally sing along to it! Click here to watch it on YouTube!
I go to the library to rent Japanese books for the boy.
This book came as a surprise. It read like this (translated):
Title : “Who is it that Doesn’t Sleep?”
Could it be an owl?
Could it be a mouse?
Could it be a thief?
No, it’s a ghost. Night time is for ghosts.
Those of you who don’t go to sleep…
Fly […]
Two emergency bags ready to go. One for Paul, one for me.
We spread our collection of items out on the floor, and cached our supplies into two equal loads.
For those of you interested to know, I listed what’s in our bags down below.
One thing I thought would be good to do, was to write down […]
