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prairiesky

Things I Love

Jun 04, 2007 20:05

I don’t really like any question that starts “what’s your favourite…”, mostly because they’re hard to answer. My favourites are fleeting, and I’m far too fickle to favour a fundamental few forever. (*phew*) With that disclaimer in mind, here are some things that I’m totally into right now.

1) The Good Earth Café that just opened in Edmonton. ( Read more... )

school, music, garden, stories, coffee

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eventhere June 5 2007, 05:55:02 UTC

pre #1) I loved the alliteration.
1) oooh - I like my afternoon/evening shifts better. Better atmosphere. but you're place sounds way cooler than my place.
2) meeeee too. Except my battery hardly lasts long enough for a decent shuffle these days. What does SLP stand for?
3) noted.
4) I Looooove Isaiah. I think that that's even something that I'd venture to use the word favorite with. Risky, I know. But I seriously like it that much.
5) jealous. I had a near breakdown in Atwater market a few weeks ago. Seriously, I was sniffing plants... not just flowers and spices... but random tomato plants with neither flower nor fruit. Lamenting why one would stay in a city when all this was awaiting me at home (blisters and sunburns were all but forgotten, of course), Poor Beth - the dear tried to comfort me by saying that by being in Montreal and visiting the market I would have both worlds. That's sorta when I lost it... Atwater market is truly no Whispering Winds. That's like saying the gelatto like icecream we had just enjoyed ( ... )

prairiesky June 5 2007, 13:48:59 UTC

SLP: Speech-Language Pathology/ist

You have a frame?! That's very exciting. I have a diploma in latin, but I think it's still in its cardboard envelope at my parents' place. Maybe someday when I have an office (and a job) I'll actually get around to framing it. *grin* Here's a question: Do you know what it says? (We had a laugh when I got mine - typical McGill to give out diplomas that no one can understand.)

immerrichtig June 25 2007, 20:10:13 UTC

I know the cardboard envelope. It was one of the first things to move to Verdun...it went home with my classics-major-latin-speaking-soon-to-be-roommate-friend...who carries a latin dictionary around with her. She translated most of it. Basically, it says we completed the requirements of our degree and some high-fallutin' people will bestow the honour of this meaningless degree on us.

My sister wants a frame for her degree from our grandmother, but the suggestion of a grad ring was much more tempting for me...

food, garden, story imhmom June 6 2007, 17:18:56 UTC

"There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good."...From the storypeople site. Thanks for that intro. My garden has never been planted so late. June 2!! Seeds in the ground....aaahhhh Holy. Our white lilac bush is huge and in the half light we know as summer night in the north, it is like an explosion of the best firework, only better. Fragrant. And "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news..." Isaiah 52:7

Re: food, garden, story prairiesky June 6 2007, 22:21:39 UTC

A group of friends-of-friends are doing what they call 'guerilla gardening' here in the city - they're planting small garden plots in random, unclaimed places (like boulevards) secretly and mostly in the middle of the night. I thought it was a beautiful idea. (I'm glad that your seeds were almost as late as mine. Makes me feel much better. *grin* Although, for me it was enough of an accomplishment to get them in that I'm not so concerned with whether they do anything or not.)

And, another good story:
"Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning & loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero."

The Fillings wensurprised June 11 2007, 14:48:38 UTC

The Fillings appear to be in good working order. I was hanging around the hospital this week, trying to figure out if I'd be able to get to Aussie a week early (which I can't. Sighhh) and I was sitting a room waiting for a computer and there was a gideon bible on the shelf and they've got the recommended verses thing in the front and it sent me to.... Isaiah. Not quite the same chapter - I was in 26 (vs 3 and 4 specifically, but the rest of it too) - but still.

love you