My morning ritual is making coffee: a café latte for Jennifer, a black pour-over for myself. It’s especially delicious, these bright sunny mornings, the blue sky, the birdsong, the clouds tinged a delicate pink. And the smells and sounds of the coffee-making.
It’s a way of ordering the mind, an awakening, a meditative and pleasurable task with each step.… Continue reading
Gazing out on the Salish Sea, across Boundary Pass at the moon rising over the San Juans, I am humbled by the stillness and intense beauty. It’s prime summer, just now, and the scene is emblematic of this time and place, South Pender Island.
We are in the dog days of summer, those sultry, humid days of bees, dragonflies, and swooping swallows.… Continue reading
In the 1991 film Black Robe, a Jesuit priest sits on a log in the forest, writing in a book. It’s Quebec in the 17th century, and he’s travelling with a group of Huron aboriginal people and French explorers.… Continue reading
A garden of fun facts about bread and baking on the Internet.
Think you’ve seen it all?
Take a look at the @breadfaceblog on Instagram.
She’s a young Asian-American woman who became an Internet sensation a few years ago. Her claim to fame?
Smooshing her face into bread products.
That’s it. But lots is going on beneath the surface of things.… Continue reading
This Friday, June 16, I’ll celebrate Bloomsday, the fictional day in Dublin that unfolds throughout James Joyce’s famous novel, Ulysses.
I’ve written about Bloomsday before (see last year’s post, Breakfast on Bloomsday). Joyce’s Ulysses is one of the great novels in the English language. Right up there with Shakespeare. It’s a challenge to read but loved worldwide for its colour, language, humour, poetry and grim beauty.… Continue reading