![]() The above slideshow was the last of three I made to remember Dad after his passing last August 15th. As the family historian I make it my job to prepare these keepsakes. Time goes by and you can tend to never get around to doing them. We have a significant family tree project (resides on Geni) and these videos also reside there. The first and second can be found by following the links. We woke up to snow on the 2nd. On the 3rd the sun finally came out after hiding for about two weeks. Jan 5 I received my booster shot, a ½ dose of Moderna, at the big vaccination clinic set up in the old Sears building at the Devonshire Mall. It is a giant processing center - hundreds of people, very well organised, and wait times are minimal. I have been feeling tired these days - not sick. My afternoon naps take me right down. Maybe they always have, but I go into a deep sleep and am a bit confused when I wake up. I started doing 1 hour of yoga on Jan 1 and as of this post addition (Jan 15th) have done it every day. I have a set of poses, ones which I enjoy, so it makes the time fly by. ![]() Heaven forbid but I’m starting to wonder if Facebook is running low on gas. The web is here to stay and FB has been an early natural product, but as with the early model T Ford, things change, evolve, progress. Try to imagine what is next. For one thing, we think we need a space free of adverts. My FB feed now has more ads than the exchange of ideas (assume an ad is not an idea). Jan 21 The western world seems to have come to a stop. Covid/Omicron has sapped our collective ambitions - we are just trying to make it to the other side. I feel the worse is over, time will tell. It’s been over two weeks since my booster and I’m just now starting to get my normal energy back - though not completely. As the year and month started out very mild, this last week has seen below-average cold and some snow. One night near the end of the month I woke and looked at the clock - it read 3:21. The very next night I woke and it read 1:23. Curious that. The Russians have massed troops, tanks, and fighter jets on the Ukrainian border. I’m thinking this might just be Putin applying pressure on the US to free up some (if not all) of the hundreds of millions of dollars (personal fortunes of Putin and his cronies) frozen in the US and other countries (Canada and the EU included) by the Magnitsky Act. I think he is the world's most notorious megalomaniac. ![]() Read The Mountain and the Valley Ernest Buckler 1954 This was the first book of my new year, I attempt to read at least 24 books a year. This is considered an important book in the annals of Canadian literature. To me, it seems Buckler had some kind of enlightenment, like Walt Whitman. His descriptions of all things bear witness to a heightened vision of reality. It is also the kind of writing that authors such as Hemingway, Salinger, and Capote were reacting to and working against. The story is about life on a family farm in Nova Scotia prior to and during WWII. Not much happens, but the way Buckler writes gives the “not much” and depth and clarity that is at times breathtaking. Ok, maybe that’s a little much, but it’s writing that one seldom comes upon. At times it can be too much. Goodreads reviews here ![]() Not My Father’s Son Alan Cumming 2014 I liked Alan Cumming as Eli Gold in The Good Wife. This book is about his abusive father and the fear he grew up with, living in the same house. When a BBC program tracing family roots asked him to be a guest on the show, all hell kind of breaks loose. Was an ok book - I dreaded reading the “then” parts (he broke the chapters down into then and now - the then’s were always bad). Goodreads reviews here ![]() Viewed Star Trek Discovery Crave - Seasons 1, 2, and 3 (42 1hr episodes) Very much enjoying this - I’m obviously late to the party. The production values seem equivalent to a big-budget movie. They deal with interesting scientific ideas - time travel, parallel universes, wormholes, “spore drive” (much faster than warp), and personal transport (beam me up) devices (can move instantaneously within the ship at the touch of a finger). They have also remained true to the original series bringing in a number of elements from old episodes. Captain Christopher Pike is one of the main characters in season two - captain of the ship. They visit Talos IV and Vina (“They put me back together, everything works fine, they had just never seen a human”). They have an episode with the Guardian of Forever with the same portal gate. (it looks like a door at first, but later we see the gate). Spock is back with Pike, but at the end of season two Discovery is sent 900 years into the future, so that ends the part with them. View season 1 trailer here News of the World Netflix 2020 What I describe as a small movie. Probably cheap to make, small cast for the most part. Seems to be a modified remake of the John Wayne movie “The Searchers”, with Tom Hanks. Enjoyable if not predictable. View trailer here ![]() All Creatures Great and Small Masterpiece Theatre - PBS Season Two (12 episodes, but not all have been released yet) I was skeptical when I saw they were trying to re-do the original series, but I truly enjoyed season one. In Season Two it feels like the actors have found their stride and I think it is as good if not better than the original. Great entertainment! View season two trailer here Returned to Source Betty White (1922), Sidney Poitier (1927) Bob Saget (1956), Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, (1925), Meatloaf (Michael Lee Aday - 1947), Louie Anderson, comedian (1953)
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