Janet's Radio WeblogWe are all angels with but one wing, and only by embracing each other can we fly. -Luciano de Crescenzo(Untitled)- August 27, 2003 Amina Lawal waits with her child Wasila in a courtroom in northern Nigeria on Wednesday. Ms. Lawal, who has been sentenced by an Islamic court to death by stoning for adultery, is appealing the verdict. Photo: Saurabh DasAP The story of Amina Lawal sickens me. And while she fights for her life, I am getting ready to fly off to a soccer tournament in Vancouver. How is it allowed to happen that she and I inhabit the same planet and yet live in such totally different worldshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/27.html#a76 (Untitled)- August 26, 2003 Memory SweaterI broke down today and wore a sweater to work...the air was chilly enough that I couldn't get away without one. I've dubbed this my memory sweater. It's one that Joe brought me back from the Orkney Islands and its colours are reminiscent of peat and heather. There's a photo of it here in the upper left hand corner, except the one in the picture is a different colour than mine. The first time I put it on, a little spark went off in my head. It was the same feeling that you might...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/26.html#a75 (Untitled)- August 22, 2003 TGIFReally looking forward to the week-end, even though part of tonight will be spent selling raffle tickets for the soccer team, and part of tomorrow pumping gas at another soccer fundraiser. Joe is out hunting again. As soon as August 1 comes around (the opening of hunting season) he gets a faraway look in his eye and I know I won't really have the 'old Joe' back until he's gotten his winter meat.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/22.html#a74 (Untitled)- August 21, 2003 Vince Federoff photo from the Whitehorse Star. On the Yukon River not far from downtown Whitehorse. The 'late summer' green of the leaves shows they're starting to think about changing into their fall regalia. Dying Days of SummerThe kids are into their final few days of summer holidays. Iris starts school on Monday. She's doing an outdoor education program the first semister and will spend much of the first week learning how to kayak. Their first trip is a sea kayaking trip to Alaska in early..http://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/21.html#a73 (Untitled)- August 20, 2003 Uncovered TreasuresJust recently, we did some furniture rearranging, and ended up with a bookshelf in the livingroom. Until now, our books have resided in other pockets of the house. I decided to pull out some of our picture books and put them in the livingroom bookcase....all those glossy coffee table books that one accumulates over the years. What I found was a veritable treasure. Looking at the books again was itself a treat (truth be told they hadn't been opened for several years). But.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/20.html#a72 (Untitled)- August 19, 2003 Today's news:Wet Weather Farmers' Nightmare(Halifax Herald) - Farmers have had a few sunny days to spray their crops, which have been brutalized by a sopping-wet August. The August rainfall measured at Greenwood totalled 113 millimetres as of Sunday, while the average for the entire month is 79.4 millimetres, according to the Atlantic Climate Centre in New Brunswick.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/19.html#a71 (Untitled)- August 19, 2003 The Long Week-endThis was a long week-end in the Yukon....it being Discovery Day yesterday - the day Tagish Charlie, Shookum Jim and Kate and George Carmack discovered gold on Bonanza Creek and started the Klondike Gold Rush. Friday night Iris and I both had to dance at the Summer School Finale. It was quite fun actually, even if she did show me up! Too bad we don't have a teacher in town who can carry on teaching flamenco, but I think Rosario (the teacher) may come back again in the winter....http://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/19.html#a70 (Untitled)- August 15, 2003 Isabelle Beaudry, a manager at a Irish pub in Ottawa, pours pints by candlelight in the city during the power outage on Thursday. Photo: Jonathan HaywardCP The Sounds of Silence I talked to my brother in Toronto this morning. His power had recently come back on. He took a bike ride around part of the city last night, and said what he noticed was how quiet it was. I would have loved that. Even when we have short local power outages up here a sense of well-being comes over me.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112483/2003/08/15.html#a69 |