Sometimes we just need to sit back and watch the world spin.
There are few things so demeaning, debilitating or soul numbing as not participating in your own life, whether it be because of choice, personal neglect or being actively prevented…Get in there and take an active role in what is happening to you and your world. Check out my entries on the ‘short list’. Maybe it will help.Stop sleepwalking through life. Continue reading Be an active participant in your own life
The Monday has dawned as a bright, warmish (for March in northern Alberta!) day after a week and weekend of violence… both man-made and another example of Mother Nature pushing back. Late last week in Ontario, just outside of Belleville, an eighteen year old boy murdered two people while trying to get at his estranged girlfriend. He killed the girl’s mother, her younger sister and seriously injured the object of his affection before fleeing… The husband/father found the carnage when he returned home early in the morning from what I assume was a night shift. Here in Edmonton a disgruntled employee, suspended from … Continue reading A violent few days…
Well, I guess that it really can’t be ignored any longer. We need better maintenance. We’re starting to wear out. The warranties have expired. I’m getting older. Those around me are getting older. As we get older, we start to wear out. And yes, getting sick is just another way of wearing out…This past year I lost an aunt… the third member of my parents’ generation to move on. Two uncles, and an aunt. We start thinking about, planning about how we’ll deal with it when our parents are gone. But on some level that’s expected. We expect our parents … Continue reading …the reality of mortality creeping closer…
G. is upstairs, trying to sort out the house now that the painters have left… while I’m in the basement office, supposedly studying for the next ITIL V3 exam in the series. Randy, the painter, and his assistant really did do a lovely job; Top Notch Painters in Edmonton, if you ever need someone. They did finish, finally, on Thursday… the wallpaper removal caused them huge problems which delayed them by a full day. Now G. is putting back the switchplates and rehanging some pictures. Why this evening? Well, Thursday night was at the theatre, Friday night was at dinner … Continue reading
Hey! I pushed through yet another barrier last night; I attended a show at the Citadel for the first time in 11 years… and I managed to fly in under the radar. Now, I’m not entirely sure that this is a good thing… only one person in the place who wasn’t expecting me to be there actually recognized me. There were a fair number of the crew that I used to work with on hand, plus board members, with artists and folks from other arts organizations… and I managed to move through them undetected. My shyness over rode and took … Continue reading
Well, its been over a week since last I posted anything here, and a lot has happened. An interesting election result, a very ugly financial picture emerging, the price of oil sliding dramatically, the looney taking a beating…I strongly suspect that everything else that has happened/is happening in my little world is pretty trivial stuff to anyone but me.My mother and father, younger sister and younger brother all made it to St. Albert for Thanksgiving… did I mention that? It made for a really warm and fuzzy weekend.Mom brought her copy of a ‘slow cooker’ cookbook. We had purchased a … Continue reading
My back is soaking wet… its 4:30 in the afternoon, and I am absolutely drenched in my own sweat. Why the hell am I sitting outside instead of enjoying my airconditioned condo? ‘Cause I won’t be able to do this at all in December…I’ll take a quick dip in the hot tub once I’ve finished the blog… I dropped the temperature on it substantially so that it becomes a lovely place to lounge in the heat…Saturday morning I attended a meeting of the three Boards of the condominium corps that share this parcel of land. Attitudes have definitely softened since … Continue reading …and the weekend goes on…
As I sit under my little Chinese umbrella in my Muskoka chair (they are NOT indigenous to the Airdoronaks, dammit!), sweltering in the 35 degree C heat, banging away at this laptop, I find myself quite relaxed and generally happy with the way the weekend has been going. Tomorrow morning, really early, I’m jumping on a jet and heading the rest of the way West… Victoria… to meet up with my darling and our eldest daughter. But for now, I’m just enjoying being somewhere that they aren’t bombing me, shooting at me, flinging hand grenades at me, or in any … Continue reading Relaxing weekend, except for the comedy of errors…