Five beautiful facts about today
1) The lilies on my table have bloomed. Don’t they looked just like a crowd of faces, all straining and trying their best to get […]
1) The lilies on my table have bloomed. Don’t they looked just like a crowd of faces, all straining and trying their best to get […]
The day after the shooting at the War Memorial, I spent a lot of time listening to CBC Ottawa online. The producers had opened the phone lines, asking the question βIs Ottawa a different city this morning?β
For a long time, we assumed these sorts of things only happened in other places: Tel Aviv. Belfast. New York. Now we know: Canada is […]
Last week, my dad bought an Easter lily. We’ve been visiting my parents in Ottawa and the kids were quite taken with the idea of the lily when it arrived in the house. It came in all wrapped up in white paper and with purple cellophane inside. But when we took the wrapping off, there weren’t any flowers to see. Just green leaves and four or five big fat buds, but everything was green and, as Beangirl pointed out, it didn’t smell right. I told her it would β just not yet. We’d have to wait.