Tag Archives: travel

Cloud-land

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I haven’t reach the point of dreaming about rain, but almost! We need it, the land needs it badly … CLOUD-LAND a length of cloud                              reaches down wraps a roof-line and takes it   up into a somewhere over South Africa … Continue reading →

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Stirring the Planets

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

September’s birthstone is the sapphire and birth flowers are the forget-me-not, morning glory and aster. Sept.1 is Father’s Day in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea; today, Sept.4, is Administrative Professionals’ Day in South Africa (check these out … Continue reading →

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The Way He Went

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

We’ve a couple of friends who have walked El Camino, the pilgrimage from S. Jean Pied de Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain, my husband did this a couple of years ago, and another friend is … Continue reading →

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Where Unicorns

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

For the Anglo-Saxons, October was known as Winterfylleth, because at this full moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin. October’s birthstones are the tourmaline and the opal, its birth flower the calendula. The first Thursday of the month is National … Continue reading →

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Among Heavenly Bodies

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

Stars hang clear and bright in these August skies, wonderful for astronomers, ordinary stargazers, and those who long to fly out there into space … dreamers all … AMONG HEAVENLY BODIES two asteroids trailed by a nova                             drag me without … Continue reading →

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Ottawa to Victoria

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

It’s the season for crossing the country from one side to the other to visit family. Always special times, no matter whether it’s just to sit and gab or for a wedding! These occasions are special, and we record them … Continue reading →

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The Best

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

Its Mixed Race Day in Brazil and, being English, French, Scots, and Irish myself, beside being very much Canadian, I like the idea of celebrating this day. With all that I’m remembering a meal I had years ago when we … Continue reading →

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Attention Span

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

At some time we all have to wait in an airport, for an arrival, or to go somewhere special. We become members of line-ups, check points, controls … spend time gazing into space, day dreaming, frustrated, or accustomed … ATTENTION … Continue reading →

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Michelangelo’s David

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

Earth day is coming up on the 22nd  and I’m remembering ten years ago when we were in Italy and I saw Michelangelo’s gift to us all, David, the real thing, for the first time. Marble from the earth we … Continue reading →

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Listening

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

The sound of a passing train is urgent music. It calls us to dream of far away places, Vienna, Dar-es-Salaam, Lima … to make a change, to take a leap into the unknown … LISTENING heard a train felt its … Continue reading →

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