November 20th, 2023 | Comments Off on je mets mon drapeau en berne

Écoute – je vais pas te dire que j’écoutais beaucoup les Cowboys Fringants après avoir quitté la France (pour le Canada, quelle ironie).
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October 17th, 2023 | Comments Off on in a short time you will be here again

Louise Glück died a few days ago. When she won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I was surprised and pleased.
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February 23rd, 2022 | Comments Off on Twenty. Years.

It’s strange to think I’ve been on the Internet for over twenty years. This blog started sometime in 2001 or 2002 (I no longer have the files). I’ve gradually let the dust settle on this blog, though I still try to post once a year; it’s easily the longest project I’ve ever stuck with. So thanks, teenager me: you sure could be embarrassing at times, but you always had your heart in the right place, and I’ll always remember who you were <3

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December 17th, 2021 | Comments Off on all about love

bell hooks died the other day. I picked up her All About Love a number of years ago to try and repair my broken heart. So much wisdom; she will be missed.

Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

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September 9th, 2021 | Comments Off on A small musing

I will probably be using WordPress professionally soon. It’s interesting that I basically have been using WordPress for as long as it’s been around, although not very actively, of late.

Well, curious to see how the next chapter turns out….

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April 5th, 2020 | Comments Off on heavy lies the crown

A pandemic rages on outside and the world holds on.

I told someone else: the best way to get through this is together. We’ll look out for one another, we’ll take care of one another.

The world won’t look the same after this, but we’ll still have to live in it. Let’s rebuild it to make it easier to take care of one another.

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January 17th, 2019 | 1 Comment »

Mary Oliver died today.
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December 22nd, 2017 | Comments Off on waving a new goodbye

Earlier this year, Hey Rosetta! announced they were taking a hiatus as a band. This took me completely by surprise, and I literally gasped as I was reading the statement:

And despite all the movement and light and love there is on the road, or perhaps because of it, you begin to sort of exist beyond any sense of reality or responsibility – to family, to friends, to self, to security, to art, to anything – and the pressures build up and pull at you and its kind of a miracle that 7 people can stay together and work single-mindedly towards one end for so long really, even something as beautiful and privileged and cool as making music.

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December 27th, 2016 | Comments Off on Take a break

Love doesn’t discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes, and it takes, and it takes
And we keep loving anyway
We laugh and we cry and we break

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March 26th, 2016 | Comments Off on The world still turns when you’re not around

One of these days I’ll kick my Idol show habit.
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