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There’s something completely dislocating about having flu symptoms in June when you’ve said goodbye (and good riddance) to a Northern winter. Lying in bed with a piercingly sore throat and all the...
View Articleinto the weekend
Slowly, this cold begins to budge. The rain falls steadily and everything I can view from these windows is verdant, lush. Maybe tomorrow, when my energy picks up and something other than pillow and...
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By mid-week it was time to call in the big guns to adios a miserable cold turned sinus infection with an unstoppable cough. Antibiotics are never a fun experience (hello acidophilus, meet what used to...
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This weekend’s garden walk: pause … breathe … squeal … snap! Bloom time is fleeting, evanescent, in Southern Ontario. So moments such as these are best spent lingering, savoring, locking their clarity...
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Rain upon rain upon rain. Plans made and re-imagined, phone chats with friends, heaps of fruit and tea on refill, the cocooned comfort of a bath robe, and bare feet on cool wooden floors, muffins from...
View Articlesavour | looking back
Recently, I accidentally discovered a handful of posts (most from 2013) that weren’t imported from Bliss In Images when Wildwood Collective went live. They may have slipped through the cracks, but I’ve...
View Articlesunday slowly
We haven’t had many days lately that could be called pyjama days, or something close to it. And today’s been of those … so far. Number Four summoned the magic of the internet and his fast-working brain...
View Articlesip slowly | looking back
More from the posts that got away … Location: my old house (Originally posted July 16, 2013) The temperature continues to soar, and so today was a day for moving utterly slowly. That is, with the...
View ArticleSaturday Morning, 10 a.m.
Sorting fruit from the market | Baking gluten-free blueberry muffins | Breakfast on the couch | Catching up on emails | Trip planning: beach hut-hunting on Gili Meno and Gili Air | Looking forward to...
View ArticleSaturday Morning, 10 a.m.
Few words, just space to ignite transformation and a cup of ginger-lemon tea. Filed under: House & Home, Uncategorized Tagged: House and Home, Life, Photography, Relaxation, Saturday Morning, Tea,...
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Mid-summer days | Tea and couches, cats and books | East End Toronto love | Pulp Kitchen smoothies: elixirs for searing hot afternoons | Riding the streetcar to The Beach without any hurry, Jason...
View ArticleSunday Slowly
This weekend is book-ended by a work contract that ended Friday and another that begins Monday. Champagne was popped Friday night, which was both celebratory and revelatory. I’m somewhat bewildered to...
View ArticleSunday Slowly
Gone is the grisly humidity of these past couple of weeks and the weather is just right for sleeping (relief!) and tea-drinking and opening windows. This morning I collected a handful of acorns, a...
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