Kerry Says

I have an overwhelming desire for a Mojito. This wouldn’t be all that strange if I enjoyed a Mojito. But I don’t really. I’m not a big fan of mint and frankly I don’t like drinks that require affecting an accent to order confidently. (A main reason why I do not drink the Thé-Keeee-La on a regular basis).

But this week, the idea of a sipping on a crisp, cool, white and green bevy seems an excellent idea indeed. So too the idea of buying flowers daily, and barbecuing EVERYTHING and walking for miles and miles and miles.

Shopping at the local fruit market also holds great appeal. While greenhouses and cross-pollinated bio-infused superseeds have made fresh fruits and vegetables accessible year-round, it’s only in the spring that I lust after asparagus or homemade raspberry pie (preferably both... with something hot off the BBQ... and a mojito).

In the words of the Birds (oh, and Ecclesiastes ): To everything there is a season.

I Do! 

I don’t have anything in particular I want to say today.

But I do have this peculiar need to say SOMETHING.

Sometimes I think it's the act of writing itself that is addictive. Marking up the world's white spaces with tiny symbols is what fulfills us.

Any meaning proffered is just a flukey kind of icing.

This is Dora.




This is Diego.


They are why I want a puppy more than ever. 

The Conservative government has listed the following five top priorities for its time in power on the Government of Canada’s web site. (They are not listed alphabetically so one would assume they are listed in order of importance):

• Accountability
• Lower Taxes
• Crime
• Child Care
• Health Care

What these terms mean to me:

Accountability = Bureaucracy (all those wonderful hoops to jump through)

Lower Taxes = Money

Crime = Punishment

Child Care = Our Future

Health Care = Sustaining Life

So what I understand the top priorities of my federal government to be are:

• Bureaucracy
• Money
• Punishment
• Future
• Life

No... I'm not the least bit concerned.

Words so pleasing to the ear, it’s a wonder that you don’t hear them more often:

• Demitasse
• Melodious
• Conundrum
• Auspicious
• Spectacular
• Cantankerous
• Extraordinary
• Felicity
• Doldrums
• Forgiven

…to the scent of cherry blossoms.

I spent the weekend in Washington surrounded by hundreds of trees with blossoms ranging in colour from pristine white to deep blush pink. The bark of the gnarled trunks and branches shines sliver in the sunlight and glows slightly at dusk.

They are lovely, but it is the smell that I can’t get enough of. The whole of D.C. is blanketed in an aroma soft and subtle and delicious.

I brought home a bottle of perfume that tried to capture the scent and put it on today. But it is false and manufactured with an undertone of alcohol and without the depth that many trees all blossoming in unison provides.

Still I can’t stop smelling my arm at the crook of the elbow where the scent is strongest.

A junkie will take it however she can get it.