works of wanderlust

Category: life & stuff

Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.

  • Merry Christmas

    What did you want this year … and get? Too much. As I was wrapping up my work email for the holiday break yesterday, thumbing through my last few messages, a long thank you note rolled in from the president of a company with which my team does a significant amount of business. It concluded

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  • Happy Things

    Compared to this time last year are you happier or sadder? the scent of freshly baked breadcrisp autumn leaves cracking underfootcuddles from an energetic doggrilled meat over an open firefresh snowflakes reflected in my run lightchurning my own ice creama freshly seasoned cast iron pansaturn aglow in the evening skyvaccinationsbeers shared with coworkers in the

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  • Another Life Reset

    Nearly every day for the last year this blog has given me space to think about and write about living a more simple, purposeful life. Better food. Longer walks. Moments of captured creativity. But so what’s my point? Who or what are you leaving behind in 2021? I guess getting to the end of a

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  • My Little Orphan Plant Project

    I’m overstating it a little bit, but for the second time in as many months I found myself browsing through the reject tropical plant rack at another local hardware superstore and filling an handbasket with a motley assortment of discount greenery to bring home. Yesterday I came home with (another) six potted indoor plants, all

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  • Sn’oh Canada

    Well, it was inevitable. This morning there was a few skiffs of snow around the city, but for the most part I could have still raked the autumn leaves dawdling in my backyard. By this evening, a generous blanket had covered the park and streets. I guess it really is time to dig out the

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