In the Bridgetown Reader, I noticed an advertisement for MareGold bookstore. However, I had never visited. This time, I checked the web site MareGold.com and discovered both a retreat centre at Victoria Beach, as well as an excellent online bookstore.
This week, I received two books for Christmas from Amazon. Thank you, Patrick. I will savour them in the days ahead.
Zena Hitz 2020, Lost in Thought: the Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, Princeton University Press.
Lars Mytting, 2015, Norwegian Wood: Chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian Way, Abrams Image, NY.
On our trip to Kentville, I had time to stop at Shelf Life where I found a copy of Eric Enno Tamm’s Beyond the Outer Shores: the untold story of Ed Ricketts, the pioneering ecologist who inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell. This is the rediscovery of a book that I reviewed when in Haida Gwaii.
At Chisholm’s, I purchased Donald Savoie’s Thanks for the Business: KC Irving, Arthur Irving and the Story of Irving Oil. This was triggered by my interest in the logging of Southwest Nova by the Irving Woodlands group.
Today (Sunday) Brain Pickings included two noteworthy pieces. From Robinson Jeffers :
“But I would have each person realize that his contribution is not important, it’s success not really a matter for exultation nor its failure for mourning; the beauty of things is sufficient without him”
From Alfred Russell Wallace:
“The struggle for wealth, and its deplorable results (in the human sphere) have been accompanied by a reckless destruction of the stored-up products of nature, which is even more deplorable because more irretrievable.”
Postscript
In Bridgetown, at the pharmacy, we noticed some Christmas cards on the counter drawn by a local high school student. We had to admire both the artistic talent and the entrepreneurship.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Patrick, Heather and Edward. They all contributed to the blog,
References
Zena Hitz, 2020, Lost in Thought: the Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, Princeton University Press.
Lars Mytting, 2015, Norwegian Wood: Chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian Way, Abrams Image, NY.
Eric Enno Tamm, 2004, Beyond the Outer Shores: the untold story of Ed Ricketts, the pioneering ecologist who inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell, Raincoast Books.
Donald Savoie, 2020, Thanks for the Business: K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil, Nimbus Publishing.
Ernest Blair Experiment 