“Everyone needs a place where it is just you. It can be creative, it can be a computer – it can be anything. It is your sacred place and you own it.” Toni Morrison When I read this I immediately could identify my own sacred place which is my desk (also serves as my eating place [...]
Today the light was magnificent. I went for a long walk on English Bay to visit with the sun which has been absent these last few weeks. The air was nippy but the light was so warm that my skull under my beret began to sweat. I could easily imagine that it was actually the [...]
Killarney Lake on Bowen Island It has been raining steadily in Vancouver for days, no weeks –actually for the whole month of November. The rain comes down in sheets and makes the lights outside warm and fuzzy looking but far away. Inside the city buses, windows are steamed up and everyone is sitting with damp [...]
This is Pat who lives a few blocks from me. We like to walk or bike the Seawall together or explore other parts of the city on foot. Her birthday is on Remembrance Day and for her, sadly, it has never been a day when she can kick up her heels in celebration, at least not [...]
Some people you just know and recognize, whether a need or fact, a disposition at that moment is placed, you’re home, a light is in that simple window forever — As if people had otherwise always to be introduced, told you’re ok — But here you’re home, so longed for, so curiously without question found. [...]
Thanks to my brother, Michael Cumming, for setting up this blog for me. I am very pleased with the beautiful layout and the fact that photos can so easily be added. It is also a place for me to post poems (a much better location for them than in a folder in my dark file [...]
