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August is proving to be a wonderful month for me. It started with a trip to the airport in Vancouver - to welcome our new grandson, Benjamin-Woo. My son, Geoffrey, and his wife, Donna, returned from Seoul, Korea with their newly adopted 6-month old beautiful boy. Sandra and I, armed with a "Welcome Home Benjamin" sign, met and held our newest ( Read more... ) -
And then there were three ...
In another 12 hours, we're off to YVR and Air Canada's flight from Seoul. Geoff and Donna, who left a week ago as a 'twosome' return as a 'threesome' - with little Ben-Woo in their arms. They have kept us up to date with a blog (on VOX) of their wonderful week in Korea to pick up their adopted son ( Read more... ) -
July 31st, 2007 - another wonderful day ...
A significant day - for both ends of this family spectrum ( Read more... ) -
Canada Day, eh?
July 1st, 2007 - Happy Canada Day ( Read more... ) -
Tom gets with it ...
I have recently been flooding my entries with lots of pictures of children. Beautiful kids and young people - that appeal even more to people of a ‘certain age’. At my age, we get to beam at and admire a new and better generation than our own ( Read more... ) -
Back from Chile .... May was a GREAT month - and now there's WOO
I've been back for a week and I still can't seem to assemble words adequate to describe the wonderful time I had there for most of the month of May. Whether it was showing Santiago and the surrounding area to my son on his first trip to Chile (my 24th - but the first in six years), meeting old friends, finding new friends or spending time with my ( Read more... ) -
Father and Sons ...
In these days, when I sit back and look at my life, there are some treasures that amaze me, overwhelm me. Friendships, seeing most of my world, a long interesting career, people and things I've touched along the way - and that have touched me - all have been integrated into what I am. But the largest treasures that Sandra and I have assembled and ( Read more... ) -
VUELVO ... para vivir - Roberto Marquez and "Illapu"
I'm gathering addresses and contacting people in Santiago de Chile in preparation for my trip next month. I RETURN ... VUELVO ... with the music of Illapu and my friend Roberto Marquez burned into my memory. I first met Roberto, his brothers and Eric Maluenda (the percussionist and soaring tenor - who died in 2004) - the "ILLAPU" group of Quechuan ( Read more... ) -
Carmen Gloria Quintana and Rodrigo Rojas - ‘Los Quemados’
She was just 18. A freshman engineering student at the University of Santiago. She had met a young American/Chilean man from Washington - on a gap-year visit back to his former home in Santiago after ten years of living and growing up in the United States ( Read more... ) -
"I am what survives of me." (Erickson)
It’s interesting how our capacity to absorb life-changes increases with time. The growing sense of calmness and confidence in ‘things working out’ allows us to deal with life’s occasional points of inflection more easily as we get older. Those points of life-change, when the future is a bit shrouded, include the life-launching years of adolescence ( Read more... )