Category: Meditate and reflect

Advice on action.

I’ve done a bit of a food gloat over at http://amongtheweeds.ca for those of you interested in our harvests and dinners as of late. Despite the frowny weather, we really have been eating out of our garden a lot lately and I’m really quite… Continue Reading “Advice on action.”

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Blocking images.

I had a realization while traveling to Courtenay yesterday (driving being good for unbroken periods of reflection which almost no other activity invites) that since the beginning of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I have studiously avoided looking at any… Continue Reading “Blocking images.”

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Bike fight.

I rode on part of the Dunsmuir buffered bike lane today on my way to work – it’s still blocked off with City of Vancouver barricades and signs, but there are some place where you can get through now and it’s a heck of… Continue Reading “Bike fight.”

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Not too little. Not too late.

Confrontation and conflict in the last forty years of Canadian environmentalism. (Published in the Earth Day issue of Resistance Magazine, 2010) “It is to this new-found resolution to reassert our indivisibility with life, to recognize the obligations incumbent upon us as the most powerful… Continue Reading “Not too little. Not too late.”

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Social dancing and awkwardness.

Brian and I have been taking dancing lessons lately – Wednesday nights for an hour we go and learn the basics of west coast swing – which is one of those social dance forms involving lots of spins and pushes and underarm passes once… Continue Reading “Social dancing and awkwardness.”

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