Erin’s Journals

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Just a thought… Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. [Percy Bysshe Shelley] Hello to you today from cloudy West Kelowna, BC, where I’m staying with my sister, her family of four, plus our dad and three dogs (along with one really vocal cat) until this Thursday, when I fly back to the

Rob WhiteheadTuesday, September 5, 2023
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Monday, August 28, 2023

Just a thought… Beware of Destination Addiction: a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are. [Robert Holden] Perhaps this is a bookend to the blog

Rob WhiteheadMonday, August 28, 2023
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Monday, August 21, 2023

Just a thought… All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. [Chief Seattle] This is not my story to tell, but the person who should tell it asked

Rob WhiteheadMonday, August 21, 2023
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Monday, August 14, 2023

Just a thought… Give the sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break. [William Shakespeare, Macbeth] A few thoughts today about Lahaina, on the island of Maui in Hawaii, and more to the point, which words I’m glad I didn’t use – but might well have

Rob WhiteheadMonday, August 14, 2023
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Just a thought… People don’t take trips; trips take people. [John Steinbeck] Very few of us talk about having a choice in our deaths, do we? (Hey, Erin, that’s a cheery start to your journal…what happened to you this weekend?) Actually, plenty, but my thoughts have been about heading down this road for some time.

Rob WhiteheadTuesday, August 8, 2023
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