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September 26 Translation Rights and WrongsA couple of days ago, I googled myself, as I do from time to time, just to see what kind of web presence I have developed. This article was #1 in the search results:
http://www.buddhachannel.tv/portail/spip.php?article2249http://www.buddhachannel.tv/portail/spip.php?article2249
There are some cool aspects to this. My picture is featured prominently, along with other illustrations. The article has been beautifully translated into French. I would be very proud, except for one little detail. My work has been reproduced without my knowledge or consent. In other words, it was stolen.
Stolen by Buddhists! I can't believe it. I have always had Buddhists on a moral pedestal. Now that I realize that they can infringe copyrights as much as anyone else, I will never see them in quite the same light again.
Pity. I would probably have let them use the article for free. All they had to do is ask. September 01 Labour Day 2008School starts tomorrow. My friend Dorothy is feeling very antsy because she is not going back to school this year. That brought back memories of my first retirement in 1973. I was 8 months pregnant. Doug and I had bought a house, he had accepted a career position at the Douglas Point nuclear plant, and the endless possibilities of life stretched out before us. I was happy with my choices. Nonetheless, on the first day of school, I sat on the escarpment, watching the students converge on the school building, and cried and cried.
I am working on my third retirement now. This one is a little different, because I never actually had a job. For the past 12 years, I have been keeping the bench warm, waiting for the real organist to show up. The last 5 or 6 years, I have been doing parish work for 10-15 hours a week, and leading services on alternate Sundays. I have done a lot of preaching, singing, and hand-holding. Currently, I am living between two addresses. I am at the old one now, planning to do some housecleaning, finish my packing, and then haul another load of stuff to the new address. There, I have to do some exterior painting, wood-stacking, organizing, gardening, and finding places for the stuff I hauled. I am leaving for one more trip to Victoria on September 17, and will be bringing my mother back to live with us on September 24. In May, my husband will become a permanent resident at the new address, and the Moose Capital phase of our lives will be officially over.
It is a relief to be clear of the stress of service preparation and fretting about the future of the parish. I love my new house. I'm worried that I will turn into Cinderella, trying to keep both my husband and my mother happy.
One of these days, I will find a comfortable place to sit, and cry and cry. Tears of loss, but also tears of hope. A new life is beginning. August 28 Nurse Ratched's PlaceMy favourite medical blogger, Mother Jones aka Nurse Ratched, has moved from Blogger and established her own website.
I love her reviews of classic pulp nursing fiction, her takes on medical madness, and her poetic moments of empathy. If I ever have to go to a psych hospital, I want her to be my nurse!
August 23 Shipwrecked by laughter
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein, contribution to a publication commemorating the eightieth birthday of German rabbi and theologian Leo Baeck, 1953. July 12 The Big SkyJune was my travel month. I drove to Edmonton, and then flew to Victoria to escort my mother to Edmonton for her 85th birthday party.
One of the advantages of driving rather than flying is that I get to see the prairies.
When we arrived in Saskatchewan almost 30 years ago, we were told that we would either hate the big sky and be gone within three months, or we would love it and never leave. We stayed for 15 years.
I invested considerable time and effort in trying to capture the magic of the big sky in digital form. It can't be done, of course, but I'm a sucker for a challenge. If you want to see the results, take a look a my Big Sky album.
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