I had a dream the other night. And for once it didn’t involve various breakaway attempts in some murky yet apparently significant hockey game (you know it was important if you wake up with a palpitating heart). Instead, this dream had to do with a mountainous pile of books– the complete Massey Lectures series, in [...]
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A Bookish Fantasy
Posted in Canada, South Korea, tagged Dreams, jealousy, Massey Lectures, New Canadian Library, Sokcho on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Silence (Saturated and Served up Nightly)
Posted in Canada, Photography, South Korea, tagged burn site, ESL, forest fire, generator, Hagwon, Haveman Brothers, noise, Northern Ontario, planting camp, reforestation, silence, sound of silence, South Korea, spruce, teaching, Thunder Bay, tree planting, white pine on January 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ever have those days when everyone about you screams forth your name and demands your undivided attention? Ever have those days when you feel like no one speaks your language? When the cacophony is so great you can’t hear yourself think?
There are a good many such days here in Korea.
Amidst all the noise (and [...]
Now That’s One Capricious Market…
Posted in Canada, South Korea, tagged Canada, housing bubble, South Korea, Stephen Harper, Stock Market on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So the markets are up again. Huh. Today’s Globe and Mail ran the headline, “Relieved Investors Lift Stocks Worldwide.” Bolstered by the socialistic maneuver of bank buyouts and debt guarantees on the part of governments worldwide, investors have, seemingly, responded with giddy, capitalist glee, watching ecstatically as the squiggly electronic lines shot straight [...]
As the Votes are Tallied…
Posted in Canada, tagged Canada, election, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Harper on October 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Canada is voting today and I am viewing the process, passively, from afar (a mail-in ballot was too late in coming), so I will offer as a comment the only thing I know with surety about this election:
I know, conclusively, who Margaret Atwood is NOT voting for!
