Free Range
Found in translation
Despite my Swiss-cheese memory and tongue of clay, I am trying to learn a few essential words in the languages of the people I encounter daily.
Free Range
Gastown Grand Prix
The Gastown Grand Prix on a sunny evening, with cobblestones lighted by glaring late sun or cast in dark shade by tall buildings, was a fun playground to experiment with the photo challenges of the contrast of blinding light and deep shade, and intense speed.
Free Range
Solstice
The songbirds ushered in the Solstice, singing spun light from the northeastern horizon, pouring it into my neighbourhood, spilling a beam on the bench in my front yard.
Goldilocks Zone
One mere day for World Oceans?
Sailing in to catch the last of World Oceans Day, with this image taken on a grey foggy day on a ferry sailing north on the Salish Sea, from Earl’s Cove to Saltery Bay, British Read more
Demos
Canadians get their own Donald Trump
Don't like that Ontario handed total power with minority support to a northern version of Trump? Fix Canada's toxic election system, and bring in democracy.
Demos
Bearing Witness: Indian Horse
Had someone tortured my child as the nuns and priests and bigots tortured the children depicted in the film, had bigots treated anyone in my circles as Saul was treated by many people, I'd have fought them all to the death. Had I known, I'd have acted. Which, of course, is the point of a movie like Indian Horse.
Goldilocks Zone
Canada heats up
Even as Canada’s Western provinces and federal government war over expansion of Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline, Canadian auditors general are working together on climate change. And, their first big pan-Canadian report today reveals the toothless Read more
Goldilocks Zone
Upgrade, stop degrading, our world
Quick! Someone, anyone, find us a new “just right” world in the Goldilocks zone, a planet not too hot, not too cold. And someone, anyone, build us a vast spaceship to get there – soon, Read more
Free Range
Hawking’s reach exceeded his grasp
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” Stephen Hawking dismissed the religious notion of “heaven,” yet brought Robert Browning’s thought to unexpected life. Hawking, the British cosmologist, theoretical Read more