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Writing Up a Reason
Something funny happened nearly three years ago in the months following a sad decision to shutter my sixteen-year-old blog. I did less. No, really. I took fewer photos. I went on fewer adventures. I engaged less and less with new projects. I virtually stopped attempting to tackle new skills. Admittedly, I was busier day-to-day with
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One Month Down, Many to Go
February one. It is the first day of the second month of 2021 and so also the start of my second month of daily blogging here on castironguy.ca. I thought about writing of the challenge of finding time, space, and focus to write here every day for a whole month, and while those words may
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I Don’t Know Much About Buddhism but…
I’ve been using the name Bardo as a username for a few years, and it turns out that this is a word that I inadvertently borrowed from Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. I write “borrowed” because in real life my name is Brad. Brad becomes Bard becomes Bardo just so easily. Yet, having used it for a
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Why I Cook on Cast Iron (Part One)
Do you remember the first time you got the perfect sear? I do. We had come into a couple thousand dollars as a small inheritance. The decision had been made years prior that any windfalls like that would be rolled back into our house. It was simple: money from a family legacy transformed into value