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This appeared on the whiteboard behind my desk a week ago. Makes me laugh every time I see it.
]]>Grey day leads to nesting leads to an evening split between Real Foods and my kitchen.
In progress: spinich + orange + tomato + raw goat cheese salad w/ raspberry vinaigrette.
]]>This time of year has me thinking a lot about traditions. How mine have changed over the years. The ones I miss. The new ones I enjoy. The ones I'm still to create. The move to San Francisco last year threw into focus just how important rituals are. The first year without familiarity ticking off the seasons caught me blindsided. Seeing things come around again now that I'm midway through the second year is a great feeling (though, I'm not sure I'll ever get over SF's grey summer and lack of a proper fall).
When I was little, Tradition was Catholic Christmas masses (sometimes in two flavours, Roman and Ukrainian). School pageants. Letters to Santa. Building toboggan runs on the front lawn.
In high school, Tradition was English boarding school-style carol services. English boarding school-style Christmas dinners. Exams. Gift exchanges with friends I'm still close to today. Sleeping in for three whole weeks.
In university, Tradition was more exams. Showing up at the Fredericton airport for 6:30am flights that were snowed in until 10:00. Knowing the train ride between Montreal and Belleville by heart. Catching up with high school friends. Sleeping in for three whole weeks.
In Washington, Tradition was moving to the celebration of Solstice / New Years. Holiday parties at baseball stadiums. Secret-Santa-ing at work. Holing up in the apartment with coffee, books and movies while it rained outside. Refusing to get on a plane. Celebrating with friend's families instead. Playing video games for two days straight while watching the Law & Order channel. Making plans for the New Year.
In California, Tradition is shaping up to be al fresco breakfasts with the neighbourhood. Deep purges of things I don't want to take into the year ahead (last year, a job, this year, much stuff and a few relationships). Breaking my winter travel rules to hop a red-eye to somewhere cold to be with family and friends (last year, Ottawa, this year Paris and London).
But before I get too sentimental, I must go outside and enjoy the sun and neighbourhood cheer before heading to the airport. Peace all. See you in 2008.
What is your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table?
Submitted by Kadeeae.
Maple sugar pie. I learned to make it a few years ago when a friend asked me to bring a traditional Canadian Thanksgiving dish to an American Thanksgiving dinner (held in the UK, natch). (I also made poutine. Which isn't a traditional Thanksgiving food. But perhaps it should be.)
]]>I'm not sure who these are from...but thank you! And thanks to everyone for the cards, emails, Twitter tweets, Facebook wall posts, and text messages too!
]]>Bi-weekly-hiking-Sunday was interrupted by the trip to Chicago (photos soon), but resumed the week before last with a hike in the Alpine Lake watershed. The loop we did runs through several types of terrain (steep uphill beside a waterfall – my favourite type of hike, a meadow, a redwood forest and a grove of some sort of twisty brush I hadn’t seen before) and climbs a series of ridges for a nice, undulating pace. (Though, I have a feeling Nick stopped believing me after the third time I said “this is the last ridge”. Must find a guidebook with elevation cross-sections so I’m not counting contour lines.)
Via: Cataract → High Marsh → Kent → Cataract
Length: ~ 12.5km / 7.8 mi
Elevation Gain: ~ 640m / 2 100ft
The poster's an updated version of a British WWII public service flyer.
(Thanks sfgirlbybay!)
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