Hugs and hygge

Well if it isn’t my favourite posse of interwebular buddies!! Hello dear people!! It’s chilly and quiet here on Salt Spring Island. Songbirds have gone south and the locals are drawing nearer to interior fires, both metaphoric and real. No matter how hygge we’re all feeling, the beauty and outrageousness of the great world continues to wash up on our screens day after day.…

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Dia de los Muertos 2021

“To the resident of New York, Paris or London, the word death is never pronounced because it burns the lips. The Mexican, on the other hand, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is one of his favourite games and his most steadfast love.” — Octavio Paz Mexico City is aquatic. The…

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