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Journey through life
Watching this gave me goosebumps and makes me wish I were going back there this summer and once again climb Gros Morne mountain. sigh....
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Music changes people's lives...
I watched this movie two weeks ago and I'm still stuck on it. :) Long live rock & roll...
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Dignity in death
First Nations Remove Whale Carcass
Souvenir hunters and tourists who were taking bits and pieces off a dead grey whale beached in a park near Sooke, B.C., have forced the removal of the mammal. The Beecher Bay First Nation brought their concerns to the Department of Fisheries after members noticed that hunks of the whale's hide and other parts had ( Read more... ) -
Last Day of Vancouver Olympics
It's been an emotional trip from start to finish. Whatever will we watch on TV next week?
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Cohen Le Canadien Errant
Reminds me of visiting my father's relatives in Montreal and some of the places they lived back in that time. And singing old Quebecois folk songs like this one. Seems like yesterday...
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Snow on snow...
So glad I bought Loreena McKennitt's 'A Midwinter Night's Dream' CD this Christmas season.
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
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(Christina Rossetti 1872)
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