Category: everyday life
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I am a (temporary) no-go zone
Read more: I am a (temporary) no-go zoneIn December 2023 (for the post, “the sofa bed and sleepovers“), I did a tally of family and close friends from out of town that had visited me since I moved into my place in Montréal in February 2022. I landed on a count of 21, an average of one for each month. I will…
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theatre of the absurd
Read more: theatre of the absurd“It’s one of those things a person has to do; sometimes, a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.” — Edward Albee, The Zoo Story A play in one act, The Zoo Story was written by the late American playwright Edward Albee. According…
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visual cortex tinkering
Read more: visual cortex tinkeringI have burned through so many morning candles already this year. That’s one of my usual remedies … to combat the grey daytime sky, the snowless grey ground, the leafless grey trees. It doesn’t tend to bother me, the grey. This year was different. This year it bothered me. On one of those grey days…
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