tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75971388525515118032011-12-22T12:20:49.361-08:00musings on living a creative life (and raising possums).magdalenenoreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-78558195780661223652011-03-27T06:33:00.000-07:002011-03-27T06:33:33.354-07:00

if you just happened to stop by, please do come by and visit my new blog..TWELVE TWENTY

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-21003039900123204122008-10-18T12:45:00.000-07:002008-10-18T13:00:10.750-07:00

when gsus and i took our trip to vancouver island in august he surprised me with a special treat. bunnies!! oH mY. i do love bunnies. i am, however, for some mysterious reason, highly allergic to bunnies. i would have never known this had not mama-j and her lovely husband adopted the cutest bunny, willoughbee, and let him loose in their house. whenever i went over, i couldn't help myself -petting

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-62446747128638997722008-10-09T18:14:00.000-07:002008-10-09T19:24:27.828-07:00

"being human requires the authoring of one's life, of one's life story. having a coherent, functional sense of one's self requires ongoing, active engagement in this authoring process"just something i read this morning for a paper i have to write. it struck a chord.in my recent past i have pretty much let life happen to me. sometimes (often?) i took on this role of victim, feeling overly sorry

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-56709271699715189172008-10-05T16:09:00.000-07:002008-10-05T17:24:35.192-07:00

i should be reading. reading and/or writing. i should be, but i'm not. because since school began i haven't had a chance to upload some of the photos that gsus and i took while we were out west in august. so i dived into the process of doing that today...it's a little excruciating to have 300 photographs to look through. at first, i wanted to run through them quickly, to weed out the crappy shots

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-5093633762704022192008-10-03T21:16:00.000-07:002008-10-03T21:34:43.786-07:00

i have an assignment. i have to choose a place that would be suitable to take an intermediate art class for an afternoon...or a daytrip. i chose the royal botanical gardens just outside toronto. this was a purely selfish decision on my part, and now i have to find a way to sell the idea to my prof. not that the trip wouldn't be interesting for students..it's just that i can imagine them maybe

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-40495482764858721432008-09-26T07:27:00.000-07:002008-10-03T15:05:09.862-07:00

the fence was gone the day after i posted my entry. it's been replaced with a standard issue rental fence. no cool factor about it - it's blue and metal and cagey looking. the one they took down, this one, is probably piled up in some lonely corner on the site....awaiting it's transport to the dump. i'm really glad i got the pix that i did. now i wish i took more!so it's nearing the end of

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-38005139258412017762008-09-22T06:49:00.000-07:002008-09-26T06:27:00.304-07:00

i'm loving the colours and textures of this fence. it's long & surrounds a progressing development in my neighbourhood called the green arts barns - which is going to be a pretty fantastic environment when it's all finished. the whole thing is a conversion of old, unused ttc "barns" (ttc, for those not in the loop, stands for toronto transit commission) - this is where the ttc housed streetcars

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-57446386371405210932008-09-18T17:51:00.000-07:002008-09-18T18:45:43.159-07:00

this pic was taken a few weeks ago in my neighbourhood. i just took my camera with me up and down some streets, trying to find what i could find. i found myself looking at things i tend not to really notice on any other day. it was nice to not to have a destination, and just go wherever i felt compelled to wander. we're always running here and there, trying to catch up with time. i think that

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-7968258415648289742008-09-16T18:39:00.000-07:002008-09-18T18:50:47.266-07:00

it's days like today that i'm walking around & i catch my reflection and wonder where it is i'm going.it's days like today that don't tell me much about tomorrow.it's days like today that go by and i will likely never be able to recollect what i did, where i went, what i was wearing, the words i said and to whom i said them.unless i write today down.funny, isn't it? if i do that, if i write it

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-34946259239852610162008-09-14T17:57:00.000-07:002008-09-16T18:39:36.206-07:00

i've had this painting on file for quite a while now. it's by ben vandyk, a long time friend of gsus' from way back in the day. ben helped me out a few years back (maybe more like four) when i needed some work to 'curate' for a class assignment. i've used the word curate because it sounds important. in fact, i'd peg the whole thing as a more adult version of show and tell since the audience was

magdalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597138852551511803.post-13690014424426005872008-08-12T19:40:00.000-07:002008-08-19T19:44:20.385-07:00

वेल्कोमे तो माय न्यू होम(welcome to my new home)i hope you enjoy your time here. thanks so much for stopping by.

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