WhetherWeather
May 5 This will be first in an ongoing series of fragments, overheard comments, meditations, memories and musings about the weather. It's too big a topic for a single blog, but I hope to collect thoughts as they blow in, bundle them up, and pick through them later. WhetherWeather stems from the intuition that the weather in this part of Alberta not only shapes the land but the people and the politics here. That there is weather inside of us as surely as outside. That there are interesting thoughts to be thought about the very fact we complain about the weather. That an endless summer day here is, in a sense, as fragile and brittle as deep, dark December. I will also devote a future blog in its entirety to Jeff Lynne's masterpiece, Mr. Blue Sky. But for now, it's a look back on today. This is called Just Add Blue Sky. May 6 The first eight words spoken in our house this morning came from Shelagh: "They say it's going to be 30 today." But that...