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A fall display… Many know that I paint. Not many know I am part of Free Play – a spirited group of artists whose annual show is Saturday = today! Go south on Crowchild as far as you can go – past Earl Grey course to the exquisite North Glenmore park and the HQ of […]

Peterbilt is the star! Dennis and Laurie are a power couple. They’re in the middle of daughter Jane and son in law Dennis in the picture. Together they roll that Peterbilt behind them. Dennis doesn’t have to toe the line of a dress code at the office. Wears his hair long. Smokes. Laurie is not […]

Fall is upon us… Girding for fall Coming back from summer always seems like an uphill climb. Suddenly all those structured commitments and performance obligations become real again after disappearing into the phastasm of summer. I’m not sure if we get to a more evolved state of mind during the warmer months, but it certainly […]

Salish Sea From my perch on an island in the Salish Sea, I’ve been thinking about a trend. I’m curious about what motivates great works. Is there interest in doing good only when other interests are served? Are we in a new era? I was raised in a time of supposed purity. People undertook noble […]

Heading into the fall – same as last fall September will soon be upon us and the annual stupor of summer will be blown away by the sharper winds of fall. And this year will be the same as last year – except, unusually for Albertans and those dependent on energy, our second year of […]

One of the great stories in the middle of the mess of the Calgary resources puzzle is Tourmaline. Tourmaline is one of three [count ’em – three] gas oriented companies that could produce gas for less than the current price for the commodity. Yes, you read that right. For all the companies directed at creating […]

Had cab pick us up at 8 am. Uphill to the TV station, then a short stroll to Monte Gozo – the joyful first sight of the church towers.   Except they’ve let the trees grow up so you can’t see the cathedral anymore. We treated the whole morning like the last stage of the Tour […]

I am releasing the experience now.  This is a coda – as a coda in music – a recapitulation of the theme as a means of quietly bringing the piece down. I’m in a Madrid airport hotel – a decidedly American chain.  The staff are very warm as have been all Spanish people I have […]

Yesterday we talked about jealousy and it was a an education. We had a shorter day – 20+ kms today.  I discovered [to Bob’s chagrin] that I had miscalculated and actually had an extra day before flying on Saturday – not Friday as advertised. We’d pushed hard – three 26 km days in a row […]

Hiking along talking with Jackie through the deep green byways of Galicia today, a familiar theme came up: Well first, we are always working around the 4 questions: – where are you from – where did you start – what inspired you – why are you doing it Jackie’s a purposeful woman, lean and tan, […]