As we prepare for Pace’s this year (uhm, buy your flowers and plants here!) I sometimes wish I could go back and tell that grey-suited, clean-cut young man that the future was going to be a bit more outlandish!
Real “circle of life” shit that the classmate I did the Grand March with during our high school graduation (not my prom date – this was when we marched in alphabetically by name which is why there are two guys – Hammond & Hanley – with one girl – Kalk – since guys outnumbered girls in our grade) and now her mom and my mom are both in the same nursing home thirty-five (!) years later.
I think Lori’s in Alberta (or maybe BC) but I chatted with her younger brother very briefly when we both there visiting our respective moms at the same time.
And could be worse – my good friend, John Hanley, lost his own mother quite a few years ago after she was living with blindness for much of the last part of her life.
Blogging has been sparse for the past month in between holidays, a CUPE conference, various volunteer commitments, hanging with my parents, car hunting (long story) and more, blogging has dropped to the bottom of the priority list.
Not sure when I’ll get back to my daily posting habit but that’s my intention.
1. I am of the firm belief that it is now impossible to get H5N1 out of the ecosystem of North America. Bluntly put, there is now simply too much virus present in wild birds and mammals to be able to contain it. There are also likely many more human cases than reported.
It’s been a quiet couple weeks with us on holidays and then me busy with a conference for most of last week but time to get back to blogging. And I’ve got a perfect video for Music Monday falling on St. Patrick’s Day – a montage of pics I made against two Celtic-Canadian songs from my time at FIMS at Western University…
“My Old South London Home” – Uisce Beatha, “On That Day” – MacKeel
But it is still a lot more rustic and low key compared to most tourist destinations in Mexico with tons of unique restaurants, minimal cars on the island (most people walk or rent a golf cart or scooter if they want to range further) and a calm, quiet vibe in general.
So this year, we finally pulled the trigger – instead of booking an all-inclusive (even on the island which has a few), we have booked a central hotel right on Playa Norte (regularly rated as one of the Top Ten beaches on earth!) and are going to have a pretty low key week of being on the beach, reading, eating and swimming.
