On Climbing The Mountain

On Climbing The Mountain

Sometimes we’d like life to be a sprint. A dash of effort followed by an eon of relaxation. A hiking up a hill and peering through the trees to see a sunset over the ocean. Except minus the sprint or the hike. But it really doesn’t work that way, at least for me. I...
One Last Cast

One Last Cast

One Last Cast Davis Bay, British Columbia There’s a wood carving of a dwarf with a fishing rod set out on those old pilings. He’s hooked the back of his pants on his back-cast, and has been pulling for many years now. When I was really young, growing up on...
Systems are intimate and alien at once

Systems are intimate and alien at once

Systems are intimate and alien at once Known and known not. Walked with and in and around. They are us, we are they. A slow dance ages in the making, with a new tune beckoning and beguiling us onwards. As has always been. Foretold and created. Imagined and real. Steps...
The ramblings of a Canadian Gingerbeard on a day for gingerbearded Canadian ramblings

Travellers We, Humanity

Travellers We, Humanity Hope, British Columbia It’s quite something to think of the distances we travel, the infrastructure that has been developed and spread, the wonders that are now normative. We all are part of a long tradition, a lineage that has traversed...