A co-worker recently told me she’s going to Kauai and I am incredibly jealous.
Kauai might actually be the single most beautiful place I’ve been on this earth and Shea still says Anini Beach is one of her favourite beaches of all-time.
Here’s a montage video I made of our trip which had eight days on Kauai and eight days in Maui…
I was thinking about making my own list but this YouTube video captures most of what I’d put on my list fairly well.
I’m especially intrigued by the way Covid is going to change the workplace/increase acceptance of work-from-home for those who can do so…
I always had this sneaking suspicion that my memories of massively high snowbanks as a kid was influenced by the fact that I was, well, a kid, at the time and therefore, a medium-sized snowbank would’ve seemed like a mountain.
Although a lot rarer than I remember as a kid, this year’s accumulated snowfall (and we’re only at the start of February!) easily matches some of my memories of childhood snowbanks for sure!
There’s some irony that Warner Brothers Music Group won’t allow me to embed this anti-corporate sponsorship song on my blog.
But worth a click-thru to watch a classic Neil Young song…
“This Note’s For You” – Neil Young
There’s a lot of reasons to not believe in God but the “Argument From Poor Design” – basically a list of reasons a perfect creator still put a bunch of useless/poorly designed parts into human beings and other animals is one of my favourites.
In light of yesterday’s post where I happened to share the screenshot a portion of a life advice article that said we should eat salted butter as life is too short for unsalted, I thought I’d post a pic I happened to snap at Safeway recently.
Saying “life is too short for unsalted butter” may seem trite but it’s also very true.
Life is too short for a lot of things – enjoying food, enjoying travel, enjoying family, enjoying friends, enjoying the billion-to-one odds that we are alive in the first place.
So today, as I find myself thinking of a recently deceased colleague, taken long before her time, I’m also thinking about how suddenly a person’s life can change – sudden illness, lingering illness, accident, etc.
I’m also thinking about how important it is to buy the salted butter – both literally and metaphorically. And I’m glad that after snapping this pic I bought *a lot* of salted butter which I’m going to continue to enjoy every chance I get!
Happy Family Literacy Day!
Here’s some pics from a Family Literacy Day event we had at the library a few years back…
Well, maybe not an authority but a recent blog post may have at least convinced a couple people at the Mother Corp that I should be interviewed for a CBC story about the game! 😉
(And I’m going to lose sleep tonight thinking how that beautiful pre-planned quote came off worse than I intended simply because I accidentally said “watch Netflix and we binge Netflix. Gah – I didn’t mean to say that redundant first part and ruin the rhythm of the whole quote!”)
This looks amazing – can’t wait to visit!
New Central libraries have been built in most major Canadian cities over the past decade from Halifax to Winnipeg to Calgary to Vancouver among many others. And now Saskatoon will join that list!
Every single one of these new Central libraries have become community hubs, centres of learning and symbols of the community they represent.
It was a highlight of a trip to Calgary a couple years ago when we visited their new Central Library on a Saturday afternoon and saw *multiple* wedding parties using the library as a backdrop for their wedding photos.
Can you imagine???
Libraries are not (and have never been) purely about “books” as is commonly assumed. Books are actually how public libraries trick people into being part of civic society! 🙂
