The Slow Time

When I’ve got a contract to work on, it comes in front & centre – I give it full days for as long as required. None of that at the moment.  And cross-country skiing possibilities – after being first-rate for a couple weeks – have faded out for the time being.  Too warm at the [...]

Shovel that Snow

Snow may drift down as powder.  A little time decides whether air temperatures will rapidly turn it slushy.  In the past while, we’ve been out on the skis four times, including a northward ski tour of  about two-and-a-half hours the other day.  One feature of that was to watch about 60 swans of various ages [...]

Letter from Saskatchewan

This being that time of year (Solstice, Christmas, New Years – however you may think of it), I received a letter from a Saskatchewan-based friend who is about 30.  She (Nikko) and her partner were in Regina  last winter, where she’d previously bought her first house, and they had been pursuing their careers. For quite [...]

Work Bees – the multiplier effect of group energy

A friend gave me a very recent issue of a magazine called Permaculture Activist.   It contains an article, by the quarterly’s editor, about the obvious need for adaptive strategies for the present, transitional time – our time of economic turmoil coupled with increased environmental awareness. The author put emphasis on the importance of “social [...]

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