Category: research and academics

• 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

• the tree outside your window

  

  It may have started with a weeping willow. I used to pass one on the way home from school in grade three, I think it was. I had started at a new school and before I knew anyone in the neighbourhood, I knew that tree. I would sit under it, leaning against its wide trunk,…

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  Johanne Provençal

  8 Sep 2024

  all, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  forests, trees, urban forestry