A gorgeous morning.
Meg is off to an organizing meeting for a new and so-far-promising alliance of activist organizations, unions and faith groups – something we’ve been discussing quite a bit lately, and both are quite keen to see come to fruition.
Mica is back with us after a week at her mom’s, and I’m super thankful [...]
Archive for September, 2009
A Good Start
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Transit and Tories
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Politics, transit on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking on the news, after a bus-ride to work with a large coffee and a couple of Vancouver’s free dailies.
During the together-portion of our commute, Meg and I chatted about the idea – floated by Translink and fought by city councilors in the burbs – that local bridges could be made toll-zones to fund the [...]
Community of Books
Posted in Political Stuff, Reading and Writing on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is no secret that Meg and I are big on books, and that we try to make it a regular practice to read to one another. In the past, it’s been poems shared, as we take turns picking randomly from the many poetry books on the shelf. Lately, we’ve moved onto fiction, with Meg [...]
Appreciating, Anticipating
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Parenting, Personal, Relationships on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am writing now, for the first time, with a pair of reading glasses across the bridge of my nose – not the result of the slowly-diminishing eyesight one expects at this age, but surgery on some crazy early cataracts I developed. My eyes generally had worked fine, but as the cataracts grew over , [...]
