Some Magic

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats I just got word this morning that negotiations are on for a new property – five bedroom house on fifteen acres of forest only thirty minutes from Winnipeg. The...

Certain Uncertainties

Sorry for not posting anything here in a while (10 days!), it’s just been a bit busy in real life. First, the property thing isn’t as simple as thought; the property we decided on turns out to be too big for a residential mortgage, so either the group puts...

FTW

And you thought Buddhist monks weren’t up on internet memes. FTW – For The World. Okay, not really, but this is. Today we had a meeting of what will probably become the new board of Sirimangalo International in Canada. We agreed unanimously to go ahead...

Land of the Manitou

It finally dawned on me that the word Manitoba comes from the same root as the word Manitoulin. Things are taking off in a big way here on the prairies… Friday night we had 29 people in our living room. Here’s a picture before they all got there: Yesterday...

Supersize

After spending months using a 7″ tablet to connect to the Internet (including ssh), it’s a bit of a relief to get back to a full-sized computer, screen, keyboard, mouse, etc. Should make things like blog-posting and video uploading easier 🙂 So, Winnipeg is...