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Today is the birthday (and death day) of William Shakespeare. This short thread serves as a reflection on the passage of time, love, beauty, mortality and the meaning of life 🧵

1. Dame Judi Dench, Sonnet 29

A very personal essay by Michael Ignatieff on the Baby Boomers' giving way to the next generation, and a recognition of the privilege he has enjoyed throughout his life: michaelignatieff.ca/article/2024/t… #GENERATIONS Liberal Party

The cover makes it look like it's the pianist who forgot them

Erin ‘Wear a Mask’ Gibbs NanaimoCommons @[email protected] The Sandstone Regional Mall (and everyone knows that’s what it is) continues the tragic Nanaimo tradition of the anti-urban proliferation of commercial sprawl using the greenwash term of mixed-use. It is not part of public community building nor part of the resilient growth.

December 1st on a sunny frosty Quadra Island

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1. My small neighbourhood—Old City—currently has a Greek restaurant, Tex-Mex, Italian, Japanese, a Cupcakery, specialty food import + cheese shop, beer+wine store, 2 coffee bars, 3 lunch cafes, 3 pubs w/ kitchens. New Japanese restaurant opening soon.Confident it'll also do well.

My bit on #depopulation : #Italians seem to be going extinct – the economic and political consequences of relentless population declines /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

ngl, I almost cried when totality was reached.

“We are in a record-breaking moment of conflict migration, millions of Afghans streaming thru Pakistan have become the most contentious unsolved part of this huge population.”

Doug Saunders Zia Ur Rehman The Globe and Mail Gift article. No paywall with this link.
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Whenever I’ve needed a 5-minute break in recent days I’ve watched these two bass legends going at it in the back yard

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The end of authoritarianism and strongman autocracy comes from the cities, as Ece Temelkuran notes. We saw it in Turkey yesterday; we’ve seen it in Hungary and

A Twisty, Gloriously Grim Novel That Makes for Great Listening nytimes.com/2024/03/29/boo…

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Carlito Pablo Heritage Vancouver Vancouver Heritage Foundation MP Heritage Group North Shore Heritage Pete Fry Colleen Hardwick Marla Gilsig Randy Rinaldo Hutchyman ॐ Tom Choy 🍁 Takurua Zealty BC 1981

For Richard Serra, Art Was Not Something. It Was Everything. Michael Kimmelman The New York Times

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