Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Winter is coming to an end. We've already begun Daylight Savings. The first day of spring is March 20. But there's still a stinging bite of cold in the air in Vancouver, and we had snow a few days ago, which is still clinging to my back deck. At my ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
As I have mentioned before, I am spending this winter in Vancouver. I wanted to stay at Monkey Valley, to enjoy the incredible stillness that comes when the entire landscape is blanketed in white. But it was not to be; the snow plow company was unable to commit to plowing ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
The wheel of the earth keeps turning. This is the wheel of the seasons, of the day, of a human lifetime, or of a year. Today I want to tell you about the turning of the wheel from the black of the west to the white of the north, from ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Each time I return to Monkey Valley it is an adventure. There's no telling what I will find. This time I arrived about 7:15 pm, well after dark. The outside temperature was -4 degrees, and the inside temperature was 0 degrees! In the power room it was a bit warmer—4 ...
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