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Wild About Urban Nature
Today, 80% of Canadians live in cities. As our migration to urban areas has increased over the past 100+ years, so has our separation from nature. Despite our concrete roadways and our lawns,…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #30
These exquisite northern lights over Yellowstone National Park. These sensual ceramic forms by Alice Ballard. I will never get enough of this painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. The single stroke of the brush that…
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Wild About Reclaiming the Domestic Arts
Embroidery. Knitting. Quilting. Weaving. Each of these craft forms takes skill and time to do well and each has been used to tell stories as elaborate as any painting or sculpture. And yet,…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #29
This photo from American street photographer Vivian Maier. It’s a photo that could prompt a hundred stories. Maier’s personal story is also interesting. She took thousands of photos that were discovered in a…
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Wild About Wonder
“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #28
These modern tapestries and embroideries that were inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry. These Roman glass perfume bottles are 2000 years old. They were meant to be broken to be used. These stunning photos…
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Wild About the Women Artists of Beaver Hall
How many female Canadian artists can you name? Emily Carr, obviously. And maybe Mary Pratt. Beyond that, for many of us, the list becomes thin. Despite this, Canada has always had an abundance…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #27
This Icelandic town where the residents rescue pufflings (baby puffins) every year. This graph by Robin Rohwer, featuring 1200 years of data charting cherry blossom bloomtimes in Japan. Never miss the cherry blossoms…
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Wild About Spring
As I’m writing this, it’s snowing—big, fat flakes that come in spring storms, when we’re too tired of winter to appreciate how pretty it is. As a date on the calendar, spring begins…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #26
Scorpions glow under black lights! Who knew? This poem by Barbara Kingsolver, which is both aesthetically and emotionally pleasing. Maybe take some time to do nothing this week? This mini-history of the Shetland…
a miscellany of wonder
