Thursday, August 30, 2007

Paris

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We rented an apartment in Paris for a week. It was a few minutes walk from the Latin quarter and we hung out there a lot, in the cafés, b...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

The true voyage

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Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux. Marcel Proust The true v...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Heaven and Earth

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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth and all you behold; though it appears without, it is within. William Blake
Thursday, July 05, 2007

So many things to do

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So many things to do and so little time. At the insistence of Tony Bolla, a man dedicated to bringing his community together, I've writ...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

Trouver du nouveau

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"Nous voulons, tant ce feu nous brûle le cerveau, Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? Au fond de l'Inconnu p...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Luminato

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We took the Art Boat from Harbourfront to the Distillery District. In the middle of the lower deck, an artist was painting a dark landsc...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Quantum Healing

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I'm reading Deepak Chopra's book about healing the body through the mind. It's really neat to speculate on the intricate power ...
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Monday, May 21, 2007

Victoria day

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Victoria day has zero meaning for me except that it's the long weekend to safely start planting - no more frost. The sun was shining th...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

La parole humaine

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"La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons les mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les éto...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Virtual identity

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Last night, we sat on the red velvet seats of old-fashioned Royal Alex to watch E-dentity. Fascinating slices of insight into the internet ...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Compensation

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Compensation For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. For each beloved hour Sharp pittan...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

New York

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New York during Easter weekend. A constant buzz along 5th and 6th Ave. Times Square is out of control. LED screens jump and flash from eve...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

Islands have allure

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© Paul Comarmond My friend Paul Comarmond has been diligently working on his watercolours and will be showing them at Regal Heights Bistro,...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

L'homme dans la nature

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"Car enfin, qu'est-ce que l'homme dans la nature? Un néant à l'égard de l'infini, un tout à l'égard du néant, un m...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Lin Fengmian

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I want to share with you this site that my cousin Philip set up for our uncle Lin Feng Mian , an amazing artist whom I discovered in th...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

French, English: Pourquoi pas?

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The article I wrote for the Globe (if you can't read it online, it's in my August 2005 blog posting) seems to have a life of its ow...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

L'amour

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"La vie est un sommeil, l'amour en est le rêve, Et vous auriez vécu si vous aviez aimé." Poésies - Alfred de Musset Life is a ...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Dance by Night

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I'm participating in a fundraising for breast cancer and will dance on Saturday April 28th in support of relatives and friends who have ...
Monday, April 02, 2007

Comics

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A comic book's visual dimension is fascinating not only in the immediate gratification of its artwork, but also in the passionate intens...
Monday, March 26, 2007

WISE

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Okay, I've sobered up a bit, got the languid tropical weather out of my bones. No residual taste of passion fruit or papaya in my mouth...