Dog Days of Summer
Sirius, the bright evening star, is once again in ascendance - hence the origin of the term "dog days of summer". For this scribbler it also means time spent packing up boxes and readying for a move away from Vancouver, which has been home since 1971, to southern Vancouver Island. It is a bittersweet time, a mixture of excitement at the prospect of the complete retirement from professional and business responsibilities and a touch of melancholy due to the sons and friends and community left behind.
Business will be replaced by the busyness of varied undertakings - a massive new garden with all its attendant work, a daily row out to the prawn traps, learning the names of flora and fauna, hoping that long forgotten muscles will once again fire on command as fence posts get torn out, retaining walls get built, stubborn salal gets uprooted.
And along with the busyness, will come a renewed appreciation of the value of time spent in reading and thinking and writing. I shall hopefully renew my regular postings by the middle of August when all the boxes are unpacked and the dog days of summer are on the wane.
Business will be replaced by the busyness of varied undertakings - a massive new garden with all its attendant work, a daily row out to the prawn traps, learning the names of flora and fauna, hoping that long forgotten muscles will once again fire on command as fence posts get torn out, retaining walls get built, stubborn salal gets uprooted.
And along with the busyness, will come a renewed appreciation of the value of time spent in reading and thinking and writing. I shall hopefully renew my regular postings by the middle of August when all the boxes are unpacked and the dog days of summer are on the wane.
posted by Ben Buan | 12:05 p.m.
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