I have been thinking a lot about how gratitude turns enough to plenty, something that I am trying to build my life around. Reading `The Gulag Archepelego`, the monumental three volume reminiscence of the camps by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, really drives that home.

"And how can you bring it home to them? By an inspiration? By a vision? A dream? ( Read more... )

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Happy Mid-May bbs,

Right now in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada (where I am) the temp is:
-3 c (or 26.6 f)
With the wind-chill, it feels like -9 c (or 15.8 f)

To compare and contrast,

Right now in Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia the temp is:
0 c (or 32 c)
With the wind-chill, it feels like -7 c (or 19.4 f)
 Current Weather Updated: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 9:00 CDT

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The most lovely and talented Jehane18 has asked me for French music, but before I let her at the French, I'm forcing her to listen to some of my favourite lesser-known Canadian music.

Warning, here there be silliness, gorgeousness, and strangeness a-plenty!

( Warning Sea-Farers... Here there be Silliness, Gorgeousness, and Strangeness A-Plenty... )