Duende
What makes a Mona Lisa or Venus de Milo so special? What is about art that makes you want to stare at it for hours? Living in Ottawa I am…
July 2025
Diving Into Rhapsody
Stand on the edgetoes curled coldand feel the breezewafting aspen whisperswith the sumac dancingto lyrics unheardin the blue light of dawnoverlaying velvet wavesof rippling breathbefore the firstpianissimo strainsrising from the…
Crowded Places
Crowded placesswirling likemaple walnutice creamcold but sweetin the momentswhen eyes meetand a tiny smileflickersbefore the tidemoves onwardleaving a memoryfaint but realin the plastic crowdthat surrounds us.Maybe one daythe crowd will…
Windows 11 Strikes Again!
How do I love thee Microsoft? Less and less every day! As you may have noticed I have taken down the Geekstuff / Freebies, for the time being. Originally I…
PYng Finally
Sometimes the simplest parts of an app are the real headscratchers! I had PYng all ready to go with simple fill in the blank boxes for the date and start…
Wabi-Sabi
In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi centres on the acceptance of transience and imperfection, often described as the appreciation of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. We often think of…