Not a lot of blogging this summer due to holidays and other things occupying my mind. But time to start over with trying to do (mostly) daily posts (he says posting a Music Monday post on Tuesday morning!) 😉
The Kayak Club at Nickle Lake where we camp recently had their first-ever “Glow Float” fundraiser where you could rent a kayak or stand-up paddle board (or bring your own), decorate it with glow sticks and then take it out for an hour late on a Sunday night.
We were going to do it but Sasha wasn’t feeling up to it. But when we went to the beach to see the action and saw ~50 vessels out on the water, she was very disappointed that she didn’t follow through (seize the moment, child!)
Next year…
Anyhow, here’s a shot of the armada from a drone that someone had over the water…
…and a blurry shot I took from shore through the darkness:
No, Shea didn’t finally get tired of being married to me and drown me.
We’ve been camping for much of July (in a campground that has really crappy LTE service that, on balance, I find to be a good thing – though Sasha managing to sneak the password for the $80/month wifi the neighbours pay for shows she doesn’t quite see being disconnected the same way her dad does!)
I’ve also been busy with accompanying my parents to a few different specialist appointments, a big landscaping project at our house and more going on in our lives keeping us busy (I think I’ve observed before that there’s irony that the busier I am in my life, the less time I have to document my thoughts about my life on this blog!) 🙂
So anyhow, just wanted to let the seventeen people who regularly read this blog know that posts will likely continue to be few and far between, perhaps until the end of summer (unless my inlaws do suceed in offing me with their constant offers of fish frys and poutine nights!) 😉
“Sea Urgency” instead of “Sea Urchin” is a malapropism that Sasha coined in Mexico but it applies for this picture taken during a snorkeling excursion in Hawaii in January 2012 long before she was born…
In library school, I think I saw a stat that something like 90% of people think of “books” when they hear the word “library”. But as a great manager pointed out to me long ago, that’s a complete red herring.
Books are what people think we’re about but the reality is “helping” people is what we’re really about in libraries. Sure, sometimes that means helping them find the book they want but it might also mean helping them find a job. Or to become a Canadian citizen. Or to find treatment for their addictions. Or a million other ways that we find ways to help.
Not to mention the insane wastefulness of spending $250,000 for a five-minute glimpse of the Titanic. Imagine the good that money could’ve done otherwise. Or contrast the media attention and “all hands on deck” search and rescue operation which was basically guaranteed to be futile while boatloads of refugees are ignored completely.
