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Cycles

Jun 30th, 2011
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes [at a certain Vancouver beach?], and the right kind of day is jewelled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you...
Jun 17th, 2011
June is definitely raccoon season in Kitsalino. Every evening last summer, a raccoon hung from the rafters of a house in my neighbourhood, driving the crows insane. Last week, as I was walking my dog...
Jun 2nd, 2011
Hockey season lingers, and lingers and lingers. Not that I’m complaining—radio and television stations, and newspapers are drawn to psychic numerologists, or perhaps psychics and numerologists, like...
May 13th, 2011
Hockey lingers, but in spite of it we can feel the warmth and promise of summer around the corner. This all brings mellowness, mellowness as is only expressed on the West Coast. It’s time to slow...
May 5th, 2011
The “merry month of come what may” has arrived and my Yorkshire terrier, Siriuss (as in Sirius Satellite Radio and the dog star), greeted May with such enthusiasm that he jumped off a second-storey...
Apr 15th, 2011
“April . . . Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” —William Shakespeare Now that we are totally up to our ears in Vancouver’s pink snow, we begin to believe that the miracle of spring is...
Apr 6th, 2011
First the howling blizzard woke us, Then the rain came down to soak us, And now before the eye can focus— Crocus. —Lilja Rogers The “howling blizzard” part of that little piece may not totally apply...
Mar 14th, 2011
Eggs, fertility and new wardrobes are all symbols of new beginnings, and that’s what this part of the month is about. We move into spring and feel blessed that, in spite of the rain, our winter is...
Feb 28th, 2011
March in Vancouver is a strange month, full of contradictions. The crocuses are blooming and magnolia trees are threatening to burst forth, but down coats or vests are still useful. This is a...
Feb 13th, 2011
Because February is such a short month, I am telling you about the second half of your cycle month on February 14. The other reason for starting on February 14 is that I would like to share this...