Philippe Garneau

Will the post-trust era recede in a post-Trump world? Let's dream a little and hope its like when someone gets a bad health scare and then cherishes life all the more.

The leader of the Right in Canada is now making up childish nicknames for his opponents. There's an import we need to slap a tariff on.

Reading Richard Powers' The Overstory. My highlighter is running dry.

Just scrolling through bluesky clicking on hearts and following people who intrigue me. What a concept.

What if athletes being interviewed by the media were told they couldn't use the word "just" ? Next time you hear an interview you'll see what I mean.

Bye bye 2024.

"I have danced naked in my front room, but you need shoes to really spin." Actor Bill Nighy.

My Rx for 2025

2024 is now for the memoir. Not got a clear picture about 2025, yet.

If this makes you smile there's hope for us all.

Ouch

I've come here so many times ready to express my outrage at something but stopped. I looked out my office window at the canopy of a 110 year old tree and knew it would look the same after I whined about some weightless, transitory issue as it did before. I noted the blue sky above.

Book readers get it.

When Korea's president briefly imposed martial arts, was everyone kung fun fighting?

Hmm, after what the next VP in the US has said about women and cats do we really think an older woman who goes missing looking for her cat fell in a sinkhole?

Oddest sentence I've read about the drama unfolding in South Korea. President Yon accused left wingers of "harbouring North Korean sympathies." That's like longing for cholera or the great depression. Or both.

The battle around ‘around’ and other awful woolly words The fuzzy meaning space is becoming depressingly overcrowded

Watch this space as I curate beefs around language. I enjoyed this rant about the death of le mot juste. on.ft.com/49d770n

I'm a Canadian and loving the thanksgiving posts I'm seeing here from Americans voting their hopes and heart. We all live under the same sky. I'm vibing on bluesky.

Here we go.