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March 24 Toronto
“There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
March 17 Driving into Toronto
“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
March 16/17 Niagara on the Lake
“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits
March 12 Toronto
'The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.'
-Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
March 11 AGO, Toronto
'I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.'
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
March 2 Toronto
'In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.'
-Henry Rollins
February 17 Toronto
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy
February 16 Toronto
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
February 14 Toronto
"Everything we are is at every moment alive in us"
-Arthur Miller
January 24 Toronto
“...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
January 16 Toronto
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
January 2 Toronto
“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
— Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón”
January 6 Toronto
I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts
Wake me if you're out there
-Owl City 'Angels'
January 1 2015 Toronto
Grow back like a starfish
December 13 Toronto
“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
― Bertrand Russell
November 30 Toronto
“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
November 25 Toronto
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway
November 25 Toronto
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
― Ernest Hemingway
November 19 Toronto
Dance like no-one is watching.......
October 31 Toronto ( physically) The moors ( mentally and spiritually) For Samhain........
The north of England is untamed. It can be subdued but it cannot be tamed. Lancashire is the wild part of the untamed.
The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter – alive in its black-and-green coat cropped like an animal pelt.
The hill itself is low and massy, flat-topped, brooding, disappeared in mists, treacherous with bogs, run through with fast-flowing streams plunging into waterfalls crashing down into unknown pools. Underfoot is the black rock that is the spine of this place.
Sheep graze. Hares stand like question marks.
There are no landmarks for the traveller. Too early or too late the mist closes in. Only a fool or one who has dark business should cross Pendle at night.
- Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate
October 28 New York
“One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.”
― Hermann Hesse
October 17 Toronto
“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”
― Andrea Koehle Jones, The Wish Trees
October 16 Lake Ontario
Desolation Angels.
-Jack (John) Kerouac: 1965 Title of novel.
October 14 Toronto
"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."
- T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
October 4 Toronto
"My definition of a free society is a society in which it is safe to be unpopular .
- Adlai Stevenson, Oct 1952 Speech, Detroit.
September 25 Nova Scotia.
“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, she's up!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
September 25 Nova Scotia.
“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
September 25 Nova Scotia.
“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince
September 25 Nova Scotia.
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why'
-Kurt Vonnegut.
September 25 Nova Scotia
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
-Orson Welles
September 21 Toronto.
Mabon...Fall Equinox.
September 6 Toronto
Sunday doing what I do best.
August 31 Home, Toronto
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
― Jean Cocteau
April 23 Toronto
I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
March 13 Toronto
“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
― Martin Buber
August 24 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Hands-on Biodiversity
"Explore the incredible variety of life on Earth and the relationships between living beings."
August 19 Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels"
-Tennessee Williams, "Conversations with Tennessee Williams."
August 18 Toronto.
"Everybody talks but there is no conversation"
-Dejan Stojanovic "The Sun Watches the Sun"
August 17 Home, Toronto.
"The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.'"
August 11 Cemetery, Toronto.
"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine..."
-Patti Smith, Gloria
August 13 Cherry Beach Toronto.
“Go small, go simple, go now”
― Larry Pardey, Cruising in Seraffyn
August 12 Streetcar, Toronto.
"Art is anything you can get away with"
-Marshall McLuhan
August 8 Broadview streetcar, Toronto.
“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands
