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Comment on Wm. R. Foust - can I still have a Hall Pass? by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:52:49 +0000

Kind’ve like my math teacher at primary school - Mr Lyons. I hated maths, but he had these really cool laminated cards of all the primary colours and each colour determined a different skill level.

I always wanted to get the red cards, because that was my favourite colour and they were shiny hahahaha. After that I stopped hating maths and simply didn’t like it.

Comment on Musings on this and that by Toby

Toby — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:35:22 +0000

Welcome to the blogosphere, Jean! The writers strike is fascinating to watch from the West Coast, but to tell the truth so far most of my contact with it is online. Many writers have their own blogs, and there are a number of YouTube videos circulating. People are also tagging strike material online, and there is talk here in the library of gathering a digital strike archive.

You can get a sense of the online material via Delicious: http://del.icio.us/tags/wga

Comment on Going back is never quite the same. by Jean

Jean — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:22:41 +0000

Dear Beth, Oh, good. I’m glad then that you did..I just did not get it at the time. At least I was successful in keeping your English going. It is fascinating to think that in a sense you ’stored it’ for later use! love, m.

Comment on Going back is never quite the same. by Beth

Beth — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:42:20 +0000

I don’t remember “not understanding” you reading Charlotte’s Web! Of course it was an important thing to - it formed the basis of my learning of English - I could understand what people said in English just couldn’t answer back after a while!!

Comment on Going back is never quite the same. by Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:03:09 +0000

I think that if you’ve lived somewhere then going back is never quite the same. I remember returning to Brazil …and I ‘felt’ immediately landing in Rio that I’d returned to a place that felt like ‘home’. - See my blog

Comment on The past is another country…probably several other countries by the time we get there. by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:25:25 +0000

Without joking - the last paragraph of this blog I’ve done literally thousands and thousands of times. I often think about that when there are conflicts between my children’s people and us (the non-aboriginal population).

Comment on The past is another country…probably several other countries by the time we get there. by Jean

Jean — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:04:11 +0000

Thank you! I’m glad that you enjoyed it. always lots of love to you…Jean

Comment on The past is another country…probably several other countries by the time we get there. by Dick

Dick — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:28:40 +0000

This is very evocative prose, Sister. It makes my first essay into the land of blogs a pleasant trip. It is an exercise of our imagination to move into the space of people who were so mobile over such scarcely settled landscapes. I feel only haltingly able to go there in my visual mind. There is one scene in the CBC/NFB film I worked on (The Cree of Paint Hills) where the cameraman pulls his telephoto zoom all the way back from two hunters looking for seals, along the coast of James Bay. My words are droned by a resonant CBC voice, to the effect of “It is hard to imagine anything ever changing in this vast land.” And I feel myself more settled than at any other time in my life, and am pretty content with that. Lots of love, Dick