works of wanderlust

Category: cast iron guy

  • Equinox

    four hundred and sixtymeters per secondtracking a prograde elliptical orbitan average of nearlyone hundred and fifty million kilometersaround a nuclear fireballimmenseseven hundred thousand kilometers widea wet ball of rockbarely sixty three hundred kilometers thickaskew on her axistwenty-three degreestouches a mathematical momentbriefly marking the progress throughcold space againstever-shifting durations of light uponher surfacenudging atmospheric variationstriggering biological

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  • Last Day of Summer

    And just like that the leaves turned yellow, the air felt crisper, and another summer drifted into memory. In three short months we managed to squeeze in quite a lot of action, particularlly considering that the world was still fairly locked down with this pandemic. We visited the mountains for two weeks across two separate

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  • Unpoliticalish

    It’s not that I’m not a political guy. In fact, usually kinda the opposite. But I’ve made a very deliberate decision to keep this space fairly free of politics and opinion that links (directly) back to those topics. That said, it’s election day in Canada and today the nation was off to the polls to

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  • Terry Fox-ish

    Every year on this weekend for a generation Canadians go for a run. Forty years ago a young man named Terry Fox, long since deservedly held up as a national hero, attempted to run east to west across the country. He was in remission from cancer, and had lost a leg to it, but set

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  • Strip This Pan, Part Two

    I know that with a name like “the cast iron guy” you might expect that I’m some kind of guru in cast iron when in reality it as much about a philosophy of life that is expressed in the form and function of cast iron as much as a so-called cast iron expertise. I write

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