I’ve written before about the value of documenting migraine. Today I thought I’d go into more detail and share how and what I document about a migraine attack, both as it occurs, and afterwards. Migraine Diary Currently, I document my attacks in two ways. The first is in a specific Migraine Diary (shown left, above). I bought it as a…
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Hiking Diaries 06: Duchesnay Falls & Nipissing University
Recently we had the opportunity to be staying in northern Ontario for a week and a half. We decided to spend one of those days driving even further north, to North Bay. The landscape becomes more and more untamed and beautiful, the further north you go. We hiked parts of the Duchesnay Falls Trail on the Nipissing University grounds and…
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Typewritings 11: Kintsugi 金継ぎ
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, “golden joinery”), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, “golden repair”), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Wikipedia Typed on coffee-dyed…
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Six Months of Blogging
I believe in the importance of celebrating milestones, both big and small. And so I’m documenting this little six-month milestone. I set out on this blogging journey with only one explicit intention. That in this space I would show up in a daily-ish way and write. Six months in, I’ve been able to accomplish just that. Alongside other practices like…
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Wildflowers in My Camera Roll
I took this series of photos in McKellar, Ontario at the edge of Lake Manitouwabing. An evening walk with camera in hand, from the house to the dock and back again. My favourite time of day for photography with its exquisite light and soft shadows. Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. Lady…
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