A belated Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! What is this thing today, Black Friday! The names says it all to me! A day of dark doings. We will not be saving money by spending money we do not have. Food and shelter and health care are not on sale, so there isn’t anything of… Continue reading Black Friday
Author: Maggie Turner
Winter Landscape
An important survival skill, when living a life of isolation, is to structure time according to conditions. Winter, bringing dangerous driving conditions, and requiring strategies for domestic heat, alters the daily landscape. Travel becomes a complex challenge, vulnerable to unpredictable circumstance. In the winter our world shrinks, and we are made aware of the forces… Continue reading Winter Landscape
Kitchen Magic
It has been nine days since I have left these four walls. Time passes without notice. Tonight I am restless, and awake, and I notice. How strange to think, that there are crowded streets, ceaseless lights, and bustle all over the planet, when here the white silence stretches into the black night. Even the bears… Continue reading Kitchen Magic
November Rain
There is a lushness about a November rain, a striking, shimmering farewell of green. The last bright glimmers of life’s colour, before the white veil descends. So it has been today. Attila has it all! He is out there in the November rain, working, working, working. When Attila needs protective clothing for work he often… Continue reading November Rain
Powerless Wind
Monday, November 18 We made it through the windy night without incident. We made it through the windy morning without incident. Then, shortly after 10:00 a.m. the power shut down, with a bang. Investigation of the immediate power lines and transformer revealed no problems. Every hour a call was made to the hydro power outage… Continue reading Powerless Wind