Remains of the day

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What are the images of the day captured on the periphery of our focus? The soft blurry moments we don’t stop to embrace that leave a fleeting mark on the retina before they fade forever into the place without a key, without a door, where all passing images go. Today, during my race through time […]

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Two for the road

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I think it was a rainy day because the coffee tasted especially warm and every sip contained pieces of broken light within it. I saw this big, muscular dog waiting patiently under a tree. He seemed calm but had his gaze focused intently toward the Tim Hortons windows. It was his presence that held my […]

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Simply Perfect Roasted Eggplant

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Granted, roasting eggplant doesn’t have a photogenic outcome. Unless I cover it entirely with a piece of lettuce or don’t photograph it at all, no one may be convinced that roasted eggplant is the best thing since sliced bread. But in this case the look is a distant second to the too-good-to-stop taste. How can […]

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When I was King

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“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” ―C. JoyBell C. This is my tribute to yesterday. A day in time that’s miles and miles away, past the misty land of memories, past the desert of broken dreams whose sand is finer than the finest dust, past any turn around or any possibility […]

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Homemade bath salts

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What comes to mind when we think bath salts? Soaking in a hot tub at the end of a long day with a good book or just our thoughts for company, letting them drift by like billowy clouds over the open skies? Feeling our tense muscles relax, our clenched jaw soften and turn into a […]

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Holy Guacamole

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For some, this mixture of taste and texture made fresh and eaten with passion over the animated effervescence of good conversation is akin to a divine experience. It is not a gift from a remote god who may condone tea and crumpets served with a raised pinky and a stiff upper lip but one who […]

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Sparks of light in everyday life

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Someone, moved by a combustion of spontaneity, sparked, no doubt, by the limitless permutations of love, decided to make a declaration of it right in front of his house, as big as the street would allow it. He wanted her to see it in the morning, the first greeting, the surprise of the day, an […]

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