Sally Field shouts out Canada at Emmy Awards as Hollywood honours Catherine O'Hara - Aaron Sousa - Tue, September 15, 2026 Canada's rocky relationship with the United States made its way to Hollywood on Monday night as Sally Field accepted a top prize at the Emmy Awards, while actors also paid tribute to the late... Continue Reading →
I am still waiting to be discovered by a rock star
Photographer Tom Hicks was discovered by a rock star, a huge talent, of Led Zeppelin fame and later paired with Alison Krauss. What a fabulous combination. Two brilliant artists, collaborating โ Plant wrote an introduction to one of Kicksโ book. Wow. You will ask what does Hicks shoot. Certainly not the North Sea waves of... Continue Reading →
On street photography | Sharing images of children | and the early stages of grand-parenting
NOTE TO VISITORS: Kathie and I will travel to Nelson tomorrow to meet our new grandson (name withheld). So my daily blog flow may be interrupted. To say we are excited is an understatement. Do not expect however images of you-donโt-know-who on this blog. It is too risky to share images of children online in... Continue Reading →
What are you doing in your parish for the Season of Creation this year? A Canadian collection
All Saints Cathedral, Halifax NS [This is a living document. Additional images and stories will be included as they are received.] Anglican activist and ecological animator extraordinaire, The Rev. Marian Lucas Jeffries (Team Leader of the Environment Network of the Diocese of Nova Scotia/Prince Edward Island) sent a note to her clergy colleagues asking: โWhat... Continue Reading →
A new map projection changes the global conversation
[KJG] Some years ago I was in a meeting with Sierra Club of BC leaders. Along one side of the room was a very large digital printer. I enquired why they required such a large device. They explained that if they arrived at a meeting with a map, their own map, they often controlled the... Continue Reading →
Failure to care for creation is an โecological sinโ a Roman Catholic commission declaresย
[KJG] During her 2006-2015 term as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori stated that ignoring or denying climate change is a moral failing and a "sinful" rejection of God's creation. The howls of protest at the time remain legendary. As a trained scientist herself, she knew the effects of climate change on... Continue Reading →
Humanity must stop pretending it doesn’t know what it’s doing to the Earth
That's the message from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, marking 1 September as both the start of the Orthodox ecclesiastical year and the Day of Prayer for the Protection of the Natural Environment, an observance the Ecumenical Patriarchate established in 1989 and which now brings Christian communities together worldwide: "a symbol and practical promotion of the unity... Continue Reading →
The view from above
I have written so much recently about the Bald Range wildfire which forced the evacuation of our little town of Summerland on Friday night, August 7, 2026. A search on my blogsite will bring up many different perspectives of our amazing story. Additionally, I photographed from a number of unique angles a gathering in our... Continue Reading →
Haiti: โThe biggest disgrace is indifferenceโ
by Jim Hodgson - Reposted from Unwrapping Development More than 42 years after my first visit to Haiti, I canโt disagree with that assessment. It was offered June 16 by UN secretary general Antรณnio Guterres near the end of his one-day visit to Port-au-Prince. The visit came 40 years after the fall of the Duvalier family dictatorship;... Continue Reading →
Hear me out: Please
I walk into a room. Around a table sit three people engaged in lively conversation. I want to join the chatter so I sit down and pay attention to each speaker in turn, even when one talks over the other, excitedly. Itโs hard to keep up as the topic shifts quickly from a family story,... Continue Reading →