tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25251489950254365732024-03-05T17:15:23.254-08:00Imagination LaneA PLACE TO PAUSE......TO PONDER.......AND TO PLAY.Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-48131280597116733992018-07-18T07:00:00.000-07:002018-07-18T18:56:06.916-07:00Happy Birthday, Madiba...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #cccccc;"> Nelson Mandela has long been my hero. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">For eighteen years, Prisoner 46664 was locked up each night in a tiny cell that measured five square metres. The cell contained a bowl, a spoon, a plate and a bucket, and while there was a blanket, the only bed was a thin straw mat for the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Situated in the middle of Cape Town’s Table Bay, Robben Island Prison lies just twelve kilometers off the stunning coastline of South Africa. Conditions during the early years in this maximum-security prison were bleak. Inmates were forced into hard labour at the island’s lime quarry. They were segregated by race, with black prisoners receiving smaller rations than white inmates. Additionally, political prisoners were kept separate from ordinary criminals and had far fewer privileges, allowed only one visitor and one letter every six months.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">I</span><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">n 1964, Nelson Mandela was convicted of treason for his anti-apartheid activities. Sent to Robben Island, he became Prisoner 46664, assigned to Cell No. 5. He spent eighteen of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment on the island, eventually being moved to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, then on to Victor Vector Farm Prison for the last three years of his sentence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Mandela was released from prison on February 11th, 1990. In 1994, he and his ANC Party were pivotal in establishing South Africa as a multi-racial democracy. He was elected President of the country, retiring in 1999 when he was in his 8th decade. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">There are few people whose wisdom, ideals and unshakeable sense of conviction I admire more, yet this is a man who remains humble, who says simply of his life…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth...but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise." </span></div>
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<strong><em style="background-color: #cccccc;">I feel blessed to share the planet with Nelson Mandela. His dignity, his vision and his quiet strength embody all that is good in humankind, and offer hope that we can each be better than we are.</em></strong></div>
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thrift stores lure me in to gather more, often on the same day! A prodigious reader, I burn through many
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what got me through a troubled childhood. However chaotic my home life, however lonely I found myself to
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<span lang="EN-US"> <b>To me, cradling
a book is akin to holding a loved one's hand. Found there is memory, trust and
the shared history of years. If it is a book given to me by a friend or is one
equally cherished by them, then for a moment that friend is right there with
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<span lang="EN-US"> I<b>'ve come
to realize that books are not just a part of a home...books<u> are</u> a home to me. They
have unfailingly provided me with respite, contentment and stimulation in varying
amounts. I don't consider any book to have let me down, however mediocre the
story or meagre the content. With every page read, I learn more about the
world, and about myself. What more could I want?</b><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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contemplating a move, and am trying to winnow down my possessions. I care
little for such things as dishes, clothes, and furniture, but deciding which of
my old friends to keep is a bigger challenge.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b> I know I will never part with any book written
by the Bronte Sisters, who have inspired
me to write since I read the first sentence in "Jane Eyre". I have not a fraction of their talent, courage
or the tenacity needed to achieve what they did, but their shared spirit
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<span lang="EN-US"> <b> And how can
I let Jeffrey Archer go, he of immense story -telling skills and fascinating
life? My major collection of archaeology, history and forensic books are must-have references
and I cannot contemplate giving away my theatre scripts or my volumes of Shakespeare. Harry Potter stays, as does Jane Austen. The stack
of Irish writers I've amassed also remains as does a shelf of beautifully bound
and weathered English Literature classics that have been read and reread
throughout the years. As for my numerous art book so carefully
sought out over decades..could I seriously let them go?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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iPhone, but the hard-covers stacked beside
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visit, characters to meet, old friends to check in with, and many unread books
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let us spend a couple of days in Nevada, and a few more in California. The main
goal was to see Death Valley -which is indescribably beautiful and simply stunning-
but as a lover of topography, almost every turn in the road provided me with some</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> new feature to look at as we wound our way through the wide open spaces of the high
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">The Kelso Dunes in California were lovely, nestled among rugged hills in the Mojave National Preserve. We had the dunes to ourselves, to enjoy with a hot sun, the slightest ruffle of a breeze and the soothing sound of silence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oddly enough, I feel more relaxed in the desert than I do here at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> There is endless space to breath in these wide open spaces, not always an easy thing to find in our busy lives.</span></div>
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whine than a polite demurral. The long day had been scalding hot, I was thirsty beyond measure and was dismayed to see literally
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is not a "nice" post…I offer no pretty pictures or poetry for International Women's Day. What you will
find is graphic depiction of violence in words and images to tell a story that
is ugly beyond belief, but is a story that needs to be told until such things never happen again. If you choose to skip my page today,
please know that I very much appreciate you stopping by. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> My comfortable life was dealt a visceral blow recently in the guise of an ordinary TV movie, stumbled upon while I ate my gooey dessert and idly flicked through channels. I caught only the end of this film, but in that half hour, the savagery of the story stunned me and quickly turned dessert into bile.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Based
on true-life,” The Stoning of Soraya M” is the account of a tragedy that took
place in 1986 as Khomeini was coming into power in Iran. Within a marriage
arranged in her early teens, Soraya and the nine children she bore suffered
repeated abuse under the heavy hands of husband and father, Ali. When Ali
requested a divorce in order to wed a 14 yr old girl, Soraya protested, knowing
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devious and tyrannical Ali was undeterred…as adultery is a crime punishable by
death under law he simply bribed a local man to testify to Soraya’s infidelity.
In a cruel twist, her paid accuser was the husband of a recently deceased
friend, for whom she’d helped daily to cook and look after his children, a fact
that was conveniently twisted to help condemn her. With no means of defence,
and no offer of aide, Soraya’s fate was sealed. To her husband’s demand that she
be stoned to death to cleanse the village of her, the village officials with whom
he was colluding responded enthusiastically.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It is said that 1,000 women have been stoned to death in the
last two decades. I have read accounts of these brutal punishments, described
briefly in a paragraph or two posted in the local paper…I wonder now how I
remained emotionally removed from them for so long. A few minutes into this
film, I began to shake, and was unable to control that shaking all evening, so
great was my distress. I am beyond horrified, and can find no words to convey
the hole this story tore in my heart. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> How have we gotten to a place in life
where burying a bound and defenceless women up to her chest in sand, then
systematically pelting her with rocks and bricks till she dies is an acceptable
thing to do, indeed an honorable thing to do in the name of God’s will? No God
I know -or want to know- would advocate the inhumanity this story depicts.</span></span></div>
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watched the film in horror, as Soraya’s own father stepped to the front, exercising his
right to take the traditional first shot. A respected village elder, he would
thus claim revenge for the shame his adulterous daughter had brought down on
his head. The first heavy stone he aimed at Soraya’s face missed its mark, but
at his feet were left three of the four stones each man in the village was
allowed. Angry with the miss, the father picked up a larger piece and threw
again with more force. When that also went wide, he impatiently grabbed a
third, not stopping until he’d cut through the skin of this daughter to whom
he’d given life.</span></span></div>
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to hoist a stone, hurling it unprompted with eager excitement. When it did not
hit her, his smile slipped and he quickly shot again, this rock barely glancing
off a shoulder. Now becoming enraged, he hurled a jagged rock with such force
that it bounced wildly off his wife’s head, and snapped her backwards. Forehead
split open and bleeding profusely, Soraya still managed to right herself and
raise her head once more. </span></span></div>
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I thought the story could not get more abhorrent, I watched the husband pull
his two oldest sons out of the crowd. Roughly, he placed rocks in their hands
and pushed them to the front so they might fulfil their duty of glorifying God
and the Iman by ridding their village of the wicked infidel who had borne them.
They did as they were bid with swift and simultaneous throws. I have never been
impacted by a movie to the extent I was upon watching these young men stone
their innocent mother and be lauded for it by the frenzied mob of villagers.
Rocks began showering Soraya, occasionally making contact, but when she still
refused to die, the enraged men circled the bleeding woman and threw rocks with
such force that her head split wide open. </span></span></div>
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you have the heart, and the stomach, to watch this film you will share my
horror. I need not watch it again; it’s burned into my head for all time. The
1994 novel, on which this film is based, was written by journalist Freidoune
Sahebjam. Its English title is, “The Stoning of Soraya M: A Story of Injustice
in Iran”, translated from the original French edition of four years earlier,
“La Femme Lapidée”. It is an horrific, compelling and infinitely disturbing
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or not you choose to pursue the story please let me know what you think. Show me there are many who abhor the gender apartheid that marginalizes women,
the religious fanaticism that condones violence and the mob mentality that
dares </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">masquerade</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as law; please remind me there
are countless numbers of people for whom such barbarity will <u>never</u> be
mistaken for justice.....</span>Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-71123036986845729852014-10-20T15:53:00.001-07:002014-10-21T18:57:23.900-07:00You Have To Love Sundays...<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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week, we hop in the car and pick a direction to drive. Some of our jaunts keep
us reasonably close by. Others involve hundreds of kilometres and an
arrival home time in the small hours of the morning.</span><br />
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<br />Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-39680461254541861922014-10-01T18:52:00.000-07:002014-10-01T18:52:59.672-07:00Kenya's Mountain Lodge<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> My husband and took a photo safari through Kenya and Tanzania eight years ago.This trip remains one of the true highlights of my life. </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I felt immediately at home with the golden savannahs that stretched on forever, and the hot sun that loosens tight muscles and seems, indeed, to slow down time itself. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">a while, we came </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">to a clearing, and </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">were delighted </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">to see that tea </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">had been set </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">out for us. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">from a china cup and </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">nibbling thin biscuits </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the heart of an </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">only one of the </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">many lovely </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">memories I took </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">home with me. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I strongly suspect no other afternoon tea I partake of will quite compare with this one... </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><i>Next time, I'll take you to Kenya's Samburu Game Reserve.</i></span></span></b></div>
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Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-14925785070058370142014-03-12T17:31:00.000-07:002014-03-12T18:15:18.591-07:00Signs, Signs: Friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know I have good friends, and others who are true indeed, but
clearly I am lacking in rowdy friends.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Luckily, I do have my husband, (partner-in-crime and chief instigator), who absolutely gets the sentiment in this statement. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have often said, "Damn...that was fun!",
occasionally in situations it might have been wiser to avoid. (A few things come to mind.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">So far, we have managed to stay out of prison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some might say that's because we've been extremely lucky,
if not always especially smart.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-51418641123411160452014-02-18T19:57:00.000-08:002014-02-18T19:57:53.454-08:00Our World Tuesday: Bose Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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husband and I have been known to trespass.</span></span></div>
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realize rules are in place for a reason, it must be admitted that on occasion our
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<b><i>The old Dairy Barn</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: large; line-height: 27.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">(In our defence, we would </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">never
vandalize property...it's surprising how often entryways are inadvertently left
open to allow easy entry.)</span></span></div>
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the farm's outbuildings have been demolished; others will be renovated in the name of local
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though I should regret stepping in to catch sight of life in the old days, I am
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city was enraptured with the joy of being Canadian and playing host to the
world. The games galvanized our national pride, made friends out of strangers
and showed us we each have a heart that is even bigger than we know. </span></span></div>
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most of us, the celebrations were a joy from start to finish. I still grin widely when
remembering hands clasping and smiles shared in the busy downtown core where
we'd previously walked unnoticed. </span></span></o:p></span></div>
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conflict than troubled us, and has drawn lines they're not willing to bend.</span></span></div>
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on gay rights that I am. If we're lucky enough to be truly cherished -by
anyone- we've already been given our own gold medal to treasure for all time. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><u>No-one</u></strong><em> </em>has the
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our cauldron remains unlit most of the time, yet attracts many visitors who want to remember that wonderful time. Yesterday, the Province Newspaper ran an article highlighting complaints that the cauldron is still not being lit, even though Calgary has proudly ignited its flame from the 1988 Olympics.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Living on the temperate West Coast of British Columbia, I
rarely get a chance to experience the latter, although rain we do have in
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plummeted below freezing last week. On Saturday morning, </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">I eagerly packed up my camera and set out with
my husband to see how the Fraser River had fared in the cold.</span></span><br />
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the edges of the tidal river had frozen and shattered into chunks as its water
ebbed and flowed. I happily snapped some shots and puttered about in the ice
thinking it might be the last I'd see this season.</span></span></div>
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Cactus Club Restaurant on Marine Drive. To my absolute delight, they had their
fountain turned on and the resulting spray had coated the surrounding plant
life with clusters of diamond-like jewels.</span></span></div>
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beautiful form that were simply glorious.</span></div>
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patience and good will, who shares my fascination with the mysterious </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">ways of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is my first entry into the meme, The Saturday Photo Hunt. This week's prompt word is "intricate".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">mmediately, I thought of shots I'd taken last year at a swap meet in Abbotsford, BC. I had apparently been fixated on intricacies at the time, zooming in on whatever grabbed my attention, beginning with the large bowl above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> Fabric purses...</i></span></div>
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Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Leaving New Orleans, we drove south in a
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still</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">lived alone, yet she never had to
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well-lived that Helen and her surroundings exuded. There was always a bracing
drink for the humans and cheese and biscuits for the many dogs embraced as
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and could no longer get around as well as before...but she still missed little
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt;">From her wing chair by the fire, Helen would tilt
eagerly toward visitors. “Now tell me what you did today, dear,” she’d encourage
us, her interest genuine, her focus </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt;">centered on the response. </span></div>
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own day, she’d beam widely and talk about the history article she’s just read,
or give us her take on the latest news story. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Of course, conversations
inevitably came back to the widespread family she adored. It was
clear we were all of us cherished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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standard by which I’ve begun to gauge my own journey. I may or may not manage
to write the book I’ve talked about for years, or finish getting my Fine Arts
degree. Other interests may prevail, obstacles will no doubt demand my time and
attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">But if I live each day to its fullest, and find joy in every one of
them, as she did, I will be content. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">To the best of my ability, I want to be
present in each moment , and if I’m fortunate enough to share my days with the people and animals I love, then I too will be able to say, “Isn’t life
wonderful!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">We lost our beloved matriarch this weekend, when her tired body gave up the fight and led her to Heaven, </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">but we will forever bask in the light of grace that blessed those of us fortunate enough to be taken into her boundless heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 21px;">We loved you immeasurably, Helen. We will always remember your kindness, your generosity of spirit and your capacity to wring the best out of each day even when it seemed impossible. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We will do our best to embrace life with
the same vigour you did, and when we meet again, it will be to sit once more by
a crackling fire and exchange the stories of our lives...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-37661567189511670272012-12-05T11:30:00.000-08:002012-12-05T11:30:37.322-08:00U is for Ungulate<br />
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Because I
was stumped on what to use for the letter 'U' today, I'm reprising information used
in an earlier post about our amazing African trip...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Note:</b></span></span> I will be away this week but will most certainly respond to comments when I return...thanks for stopping by!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; text-align: center;">Ungulate”
refers to any animal with hooves. Ungulates are the grazers and browsers of the
world, accounting for the majority of herbivores currently on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;">Africa’s list
of ungulates is longer than in any other continent and East Africa is
particularly noted for its diversity and abundance of these mammals. </span></div>
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a fair number of these species are also threatened or endangered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 24px;">The end of the rainy season in May results in the annual Great Migration of wildebeest and other herbivores, as great herds of animals cross north from the parched Serengeti, across the Mara River and into the Masai Mara Reserve in search of food and water. </span></div>
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that one-and-a-half million wildebeest take part in this migration along with
hundreds-of-thousands of zebra and gazelle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;">Complementary
grazers preferring different parts of the same grass, Plains zebra and
wildebeest often travel together. </span></div>
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their superior vision and hearing, serve as an early warning system for the
wildebeest…and given the choice, predators prefer wildebeest meat to zebra, so
zebras can find safety in their midst.</span></div>
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always been important to humans all over the world. We've hunted
them...domesticated them to provide us with food, fibre, transportation
and a variety of other things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;">This puts
more at risk than the animals. Locals depend on the tourism that drives
the economy in East Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that 60% of the large mammals in protected areas- lions, cheetahs,
leopards, zebras, rhinos, and wildebeest - have been lost in the last two to
three decades alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt;">there is no
more time to lose is we are to preserve the magnificent and diverse population of the African savanna...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Please stop by ABC Wednesday for more takes on the letter "U"...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.ca/</b></span></div>
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seen gazing at the heavens to catch the inexorable ebb and flow of movement
across the sky.</span></div>
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a road trip several years ago, my husband and I seemed to drift from one storm
to another, no matter how far we travelled or how many states we crossed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Awed by the power and beauty, I
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Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-69993070558544849072012-11-14T12:10:00.001-08:002012-11-21T12:15:03.443-08:00R is for Road trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Road Trip. Few things please us as much as
the road ahead of us with only the vague hint of a schedule we know can
change at the promise of an interesting detour.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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October to explore. Beyond knowing that I wanted to see Montana, we were open
to anything. In that five days, we managed to cover five states, drove four
thousand kilometers, and saw three of the National Parks I love so much.</span></b></div>
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Washington and Oregon, we stopped at Craters of the Moon National Monument in
Idaho, as otherworldly a sight as you could ever see. </span></b></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With temperatures sitting
at 100</span></b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><b>°</b></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">F, I was amazed to see patches of snow still held in the lava beds.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Tetons
have been on my bucket list since I first saw Ansel Adams' renowned shot of
them in his Mural Project.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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to stop and look around, but what we did see of them was marvellous to behold.</span></b></div>
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Ansel's Teton /Snake River photo will see that mine falls short of his iconic interpretation,
not helped by the fact that a slow, steady fire worked a line of smoke across
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">appearance.</span></b><br />
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<br />Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-70854407549147124042012-10-31T11:41:00.001-07:002012-11-19T11:21:49.167-08:00P is for Photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-37749027458742029922012-10-25T10:55:00.000-07:002012-10-25T10:57:17.537-07:00O is for Olduvai Gorge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Africa's Olduvai Gorge is considered one of the
most important paleoanthropological sites in the world. It is located in the
Eastern Serengeti in Northern Tanzania, within the Ngorongoro Conservation
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">The Gorge is a long ravine, forming
part of Africa's Great Rift Valley. This Rift Valley stretches from the Red Sea
through East Africa to the southern end of Mozambique and is characterized </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">by uninhabitable
desert and fertile farmland, flat arid plains and steep escarpments. It is also
the only major land feature on earth visible with the naked eye from the moon.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The name is an early misspelling of Oldupai
Gorge, which was adopted as its official name in 2005. Oldupai is the Masai word
for the wild sisal that grows there.</span></b><br />
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along with centuries of erosion, has revealed fossils and remnants of early
humankind in Olduvai Gorge, which have been instrumental in furthering the
understanding of human evolution.</span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Excavations in the early twentieth century by the famous archaeologist,
Dr Louis Leakey, uncovered some of the earliest remains of fossil hominids at
Olduvai. </span></b><br />
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wife, Mary, discovered the unmistakable fossilized footprints of a human
ancestor who had walked along a riverbank three million years ago.</span></b></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since then, excavators </span></b><br />
<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">working in </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Olduvai have </span></b><br />
<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">found skeletal </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">remains </span></b><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Homo erectus </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and </span></b><br />
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most paleontolgists that humans originally evolved in Africa, and led to
Olduvai Gorge being dubbed "The Cradle of Mankind'.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We came upon Olduvai in 2006 as we made our way from the Masai Mara in
Kenya to Tanzania's Serengeti. </span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When our driver stopped at a
small, shabby museum, we were surprised by its simplicity...it </span></b><br />
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I realized not all in our group were impressed. The two twenty-something girls with
us rolled their eyes in boredom and asked why we'd stopped to look at "a
big hole in the ground". Having never heard of the Leakey family or of Olduvai
Gorge, and being unable to follow the guide's broken English, it must have
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week. We had chosen July to visit Kenya as it is winter in the southern
hemisphere. The weather was balmy and beautiful without getting excessively
hot.</span></span></b><br />
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at that same time - the height of summer in the Northern Hemisphere - was a
dreadful idea for someone like myself who dislikes the heat. With temperatures
hitting well over 40 degrees Celsius,
and higher again in places like the Valley of the Kings, I was barely
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Flying from Nairobi to
Cairo, we arranged a sleeper train to take us to Aswan. After a quick flight to Abu Simbel,
we boarded our small boat for the cruise to Luxor.</span></b> </span><br />
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Equator and flowing through northeastern Africa to drain into the Mediterranean
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Lynette Killamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747902602019771481noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525148995025436573.post-88331770504936705702012-10-10T12:54:00.001-07:002012-10-10T14:31:17.494-07:00M is for Mount Kenya<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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fortunate enough to take a photo safari through Kenya and Tanzania. If you've
read my previous posts, you'll already know this trip exists as one of the true
highlights of my life.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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felt immediately at home with the golden savannas that stretched on forever,
and the hot sun that loosens tight muscles and seems, indeed, to slow down time
itself. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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air on our first stop after leaving Nairobi. Mount Kenya is in the highlands of
Kenya, so shrouded in mist that when we were there, I was only able to capture
a shadowy shot of the mountain itself.</span></span></b><br />
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splashing water the only sounds to be heard, I thought I could sit there
indefinitely and enjoy the privilege of watching these wild animals go about
their evening as if we were not there.</span></b></span><br />
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disturbing him in any way. It was one of the two very brief times we were to
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up the long, tense lines of this striking predator who soon fled that open
space for the safety and visibility afforded by the tall trees.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">much-loved Africa.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the course of a day, our busy eyes
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