For those of you who have not yet heard of the musician or the album, I would like to use today’s post to introduce you to Camino by Oliver Schroer, an album which I highly recommend. The cd comes out of a pilgrimage that Oliver, his wife, and some friends went on in 2004. As [...]
Archive for March, 2008
el camino
Posted in Little Morsels, Music, tagged camino, Oliver Schroer on March 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
today, on the second day of spring…
Posted in Little Morsels on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, on the second day of spring, I visited the tree from last week’s post and took a photograph. According to the forecast, the wind chill made it feel like about -7 degrees Celsius today. With my face in the wind, I’d say it felt colder. With my face out of the wind, the sun [...]
On the chalkboard march 17, 2008
Posted in On the Chalkboard, tagged Hafiz, The Gift on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While browsing the book of poetry, The Gift, the other evening, I came across the following:
I weave light into words so that
When your mind holds them
Your eyes will relinquish their sadness,
Turn bright, a little brighter, giving to us
The way a candles does
To the dark.
Hafiz, from the poem, I Rain
from a severed trunk…
Posted in Little Morsels, tagged resilience on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I went for a walk at a nearby conservation area. I walked amid mid-March and mid-afternoon sun, tall trees, and atop a few feet of well packed and gently melting snow. For a little while, I sat on a bench overlooking a frozen but melting river. I observed a tall tree along the riverbank [...]
trying something new
Posted in Little Morsels, tagged cross country skiing, personal growth on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While lightly pondering what I might write about this week, more stories and reflections involving snow came to mind. Then I wondered, in the very short life of this blog, how many times exactly have I made references to snow? I don’t know the definitive count but it seems to me “a lot” would be [...]
spotlighting sound
Posted in Little Morsels, tagged audio spotlight on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday on CBC radio, I listened to a repeat broadcast of a Spark episode that included a piece on “The Audio Spotlight”. The audio spotlight is essentially a way of beaming sound into a very narrow field of space kind of like the way a flashlight beams light against a wall and the light falls [...]
on the chalkboard march 1/08
Posted in On the Chalkboard, tagged David Gilmour, The Film Club on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love the fact that when Clint directs a movie, he never says “Action.” He says calmly, quietly, “When you’re ready.”
–David Gilmour, The Film Club, p. 103, (c) 2007
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