Rattling the Bones

I apologize for not writing more this summer, and I truly appreciate how so many have you have taken this opportunity to catch up on old blog entries…    It’s been a strange summer.   It started slow and by the time it reached “strawberry season” (end of June for us on the South Shore of Montreal) we weren’t quite convinced it was ever going to get hot.   I was lucky enough to leave for Calgary, Alberta in early July, for a workshop where I appreciated 30 degrees Celsius weather and pure sunshine for twelve days straight.   In the last twelve years I’ve been lucky enough to visit Banff National Park at least eight times.   It’s amazing how much things can change in a decade.   On this latest trip I was sadden by the condition of many of the conifers.   Lots of them were dead, blacken by wind and swinging dryly through live trees like zombies lost in a crowd.   It truly gave me an eerie feeling and certainly explained why forest fires were blazing up in the Northern Territor