Tag: ontario
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12 years
During January, I will be posting (tentatively) one post every day as part of the #bloganuary challengeToday’s Prompt: Write about a challenge you faced and overcame. Since it’s gonna be my Canadian Birthday on the 16th (12 years here there) I’m gonna talk about immigration. I think it was a challenge that started way before I actually…
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Peace
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan
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From the Pale Blue Dot
Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save…
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One week Vacay in Tobermory
After being here for almost 12 years I finally went to Tobermory during the summer. This is the kind of place that’s too close to home to make me want to actually do the effort to plan a trip but not close enough to make it an easy day trip, so I postponed it forever.…
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Between the Lines Winery
Last weekend I had a few (seven) friends over for the weekend. It happens quite often when most of your friends live 120km from you (or you live 120km from them). We had planned a wine tasting tour and one of them suggested a Winery called Between the Lines. I had never heard of it…