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Begin Again
Yesterday I went skiing. The last time I went skiing I was in my early 20’s, and everything was different. My life, what I was going to be doing, who I was, my body. It was all different. Yesterday, I strapped on the skis, and presented myself at the foot of the bunny hill. Rode the…
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Code is Easy. Money is Hard.
Another autumn, another new blog. This time it was a requirement for a school program. So far, it has been focused on the problems of learning a new programming environment, language, blogging platform, and how all the pieces fit together from a technical perspective. But that is not the point of the program, and I…
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Squirrels, Time and Is-ness
“Has it really been that long?” I ask, looking at the date on my last post. The evidence is categorical. The date on my last post is July 7. And life has continued on apace. “They” are clear. If you want to build your blog, you must post regularly. At least once a week. Daily…
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An Afternoon with Arthur
I looked out the window on Saturday during “post-tropical storm Arthur” and noticed that there were small-to-middling sized branches on the ground all around my car. I was concerned about the windows. I said to my mother, “Um. Do you think that the cars should be parked directly under the trees?” “Hm. Maybe not. Let…
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State of the Garden
It is (finally) spring/summer in Cape Breton. Which means adding trees to replace the ones that froze to death: (That doesn’t usually happen.) Prepping the lawn mower: And getting ready for the prom: I know, that’s not strictly gardening… but look what I grew!
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Back on Bike
Time was, I lived in the country and didn’t have a driver’s license. That was a long time ago. Then there was a good length of time that I lived in the city and didn’t have a car. Even that was a long time ago. But it’s written in my bones, this memory of bicycle-as-transport. Not…
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Permaculture and Me
I am pleased to announce that I have just returned from the spectacular Vancouver Island to the also spectacular, if colder, Cape Breton Island, bearing a new Certificate in Permaculture Design: I can’t tell you how excited I am to show you this. Also, isn’t it pretty? A couple of weeks ago, I undertook the…
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The Wonders of Lights
Look what we grew under our grow lights! Grow lights rock!
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Perceiving Deep Order, or “Does God Exist?”
In which I consider the existence and/or non-existence of God/gods through a number of different lenses.
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Identity: Math and Myth
What does it mean to have an identity? If you don’t look too closely, you might think that you can simply adopt a set of labels, slap them on yourself, and go forth into the world as a sequence of nouns. But that’s not how it works in practice. And socially constructed reality is all about…
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Multipotentiality: It’s a Thing
Originally published elsewhere, but since nobody paid me for it, and I didn’t transfer copyright, I disavow the very possibility of being able to plagiarize my own work. Especially since I use Creative Commons licensing. So there. Even though it’s a fairly new word in my world, multipotentiality surrounds me. And although I’ve seen some…
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Problems of Translation
Physicists speak math. When they want to communicate clearly with one another, it looks a lot like this: It’s tight. It’s clear. It’s unambiguous (as long as you know how to read the symbols). It’s also completely unlike how most people communicate. Much of the coursework in physics education programs involves simply learning to read…