It’s been a tumultuous week. Started well, with the January GrapeVine at the Bridgetown Library. Wendy Elliott’s column on Books by Locals featured a review of Garry Leeson’s new book ‘One Damn Thing After Another’. I think that sums up very well the first week of 2025.
We spent part of a day driving to the Apple Store at the Halifax Shopping Centre. I needed support to make sure I was making payments for online storage. It has been quite awhile since we had wandered through a large mall.
I had a beer with John Wightman. We went over the history of CANMAP. This not for profit was invented by John in the era of Roger Tomlinson. The acronym stands for Canadian Numerical Mapping Applications (CANMAP).
Moving onto this week, the media has been full of Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I tried to turn it off, by watching North to North. This distraction reminded me of the landscape of Iqaluit, and the time we spent living close by, with Andrew and Julia’s family.
Ultimately, life is about landscape, and how we share it with friends and family, embedded within its local geography: climate, ecology. Unlike the newsmaker/ politicians, it is not a resource to be traded for personal gain.
As I look up from my desk in the basement, I see Nancy Turner’s book. The Earth’s Blanket. Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living.
That reminds me, that we CAN MAP !
Postscript
We walked in the Riverside Park this morning. Noticed that the watch had disappeared; hopefully, to its rightful owner. Edward is away in Florida.
References
Garry Leeson. 2024. One Damn Thing After Another. Moose House Press.
Nancy Turner. 2005. The Earth’s Blanket. Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living. Douglas and McIntyre.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Thanks for the pointer to The Earth’s Blanket. I’ve looked it up and will make a point of getting it.
A trip to a shopping mall is enough to sour more than a week. A shopping mall large enough to have an Apple Store, coupled with the Trusk mess could ruin a month. Maybe you should start looking at seed catalogues?
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