Category: Event

  • 100th Anniversary

    100th Anniversary

    May 20th is the 100th anniversary of my paternal grandparent’s wedding. As a point-in-time image, it carries for me the feel of an August Sander photograph, marking a record of a family and generational differences…

  • Arrival

    Arrival

    100 years ago today, my maternal grandfather arrived on the Canadian Pacific Railway’s ship “Montcalm” in Quebec City, from Czecho-Slovakia, via Hamburg Germany and Liverpool England, enroute to Brooklyn New York, where his family had…

  • Rumtopf Started
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    Rumtopf Started

    Starting the Rumtopf marks the beginning of preparations for next Christmas. First ingredient: apples. In this globalized economy of food sources seasons are no longer gates.  

  • Power to the People
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    Power to the People

    This information war we are currently experiencing, as part of Putin’s incursion, whose combatants are the various governments, news agencies, pundits, etc. is a battle for public opinion. The military assets are [factual] information, dis-information…

  • The Big Hope
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    The Big Hope

    I’m finding it trying to follow the news of this “Putin’s War”.  It’s not just the carnage and savagery we are able to witness each day, each hour, each minute, but it has provoked an…