Wedding legacies, planting trees

July 14, 2010

As in previous years I chaired a Mentor panel today as part of the New Ventures BC competition. It was great to see half a dozen of the final companies present their story and have the opportunity to comment. My fellow mentors and I aim to provide feedback which helps the competitors refine their story [...]

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A stick of rhubarb …

July 11, 2010

It could be said that this was very much a rhubarb weekend. On Saturday we ventured into the Fraser Valley in search of it. What we did find was a nice summertime event at the Township 7 Winery (who had one of their wines served to Her Majesty recently), what we didn’t find was Rhubarb. [...]

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Cautiously Optimistic

July 10, 2010

Well I missed a couple of days 300 words, although I did post yesterday it was simply to share a video rather than a full piece. I can’t say I’m feeling guilty but I can say that I missed writing and intend to correct that starting here. I A number of positive things have popped [...]

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Mountains make room for my mind

July 7, 2010

Yesterday was one of those days where nature reminds me why I like living here. Driving down the highway I was literally surrounded by mountains. To the north the Coast Mountains; to the east the North Cascades Mountains; to the south the Olympic Mountains; and to the west the Vancouver Island Ranges, specifically the Seymour [...]

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Conflicts and contradictions of new experience

July 5, 2010

As I sit here thinking about what to write I know that for once, I immediately have a subject I can talk about. Yet, as I try and gather my thoughts it’s surprising how difficult this is. I’ve been working on a new project for the last couple of months – forging a new working [...]

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Driving injustice

July 3, 2010

“Car driver gets 4 years in jail for killing a pedestrian“ Sadly I see a lot of these stories and it reminds me of the poem Autogeddon by Heathcote Williams written in 1987. Specifically it reminds me of these lines: …. Hit someone over the head with a discarded chrome fender And kill them: Life. [...]

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Haircuts to remember

July 2, 2010

Everytime I have a haircut it reminds me of my Dad. As I sit in the chair and watch the barber I see the grey locks of my hair fall. For whatever reason those grey locks instantly remind me of Dad. They don’t look like my hair, but like his. I think this every time [...]

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Public pianos and a list of regrets?

July 1, 2010

Playing a musical instrument is on the list of things I wish I could do. Other entries would include being able to study chess, speak fluently in multiple languages and maybe even, being able to sing. It’s not so much a list of regrets for things I wish I’d done but an acknowledgement that the [...]

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University choices

June 29, 2010

Meet Roobarb. He’s now 18 years old and ready to go off to University. For years I have been encouraging him to take environmental studies, maybe something in the Natural Sciences. However, Roobarb has other ideas. He wants to study psychology. Apparently Roobarb believes he has enough material from living with us to jump the [...]

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Vacant stores, owl attacks and lightning strikes

June 28, 2010

Over the weekend we explored our new neighbourhood. We’ve lived in a few since arriving close to five years ago and although some of the places were familiar to us, it feels different when you actually live there. There is quite an eclectic collection of stores in our part of the city and although we [...]

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