Category: everyday life

• almost sprung

  

  Okay, we’re in the home stretch of winter here in Montréal (as elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere). Yes, yes, the vernal equinox approaches — on March 20th at 5:01 in the morning, spring will officially have sprung. I’m ready for it. Not to say that I don’t appreciate winter. There is lots to love about…

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  Johanne Provençal

  15 Mar 2025

  everyday life, nature & landmarks

  seasons, spring

• love ten times

  

  This fourteenth day of February, in the year two thousand and twenty-five, I am calling on us all to speak love ten times. I’ll start us off … Speak your love ten times today. And tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow.

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  Johanne Provençal

  14 Feb 2025

  arts, culture, music, everyday life, food & drink, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  love, Valentine’s Day

• let’s talk

  

  It may seem counter-intuitive, in some ways, what I’m about to say/write. My few words today begin with the most recent Massey Lecture, What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Times, by Ian Williams. I picked it up yesterday, after finishing the previous year’s Massey Lecture, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as…

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  Johanne Provençal

  2 Feb 2025

  arts, culture, music, everyday life, research and academics

  books, conversation, House of Anansi Press, Massey Lectures