That’s the slogan of the Vancouver Olympic Games which is from a line in Canada’s National Anthem

A man I know, an accountant by trade and excellent musician, has a very unique way of looking at the world and wrote this in an email:

Another fascinating aspect of the marketing of the games are the spiritual hooks in the [sloganeering]. The current games use "With glowing hearts…".  I thought "exploding hearts" would be more apt, considering McDonald’s and Coca-Cola are the official food providers.

Love it!

I drove from Vancouver [400km round trip] to walk with my dog in the snow at Joffre Lakes Provincial Park. She loved it!

These videos were taken with my camera phone and the quality is very poor when you view them at any size larger than what is shown here.

This was the first time in dozens of years that I walked across a frozen lake.

Other observations: Snow appeared at roadside level exactly 100km [60 miles] from my starting point.

In Whistler there are tons Olympic volunteers in their spiffy blue uniforms. They look like smurfs.

I found out about the passing of Lhasa de Sela on New Year’s Day 2010 early this morning on CBC Radio 1. I couldn’t sleep so I was distracting myself by configuring a new tech device and wasn’t paying attention to the content. However, I did hear the announcer mention her name and death before playing an interview from April of last year made around the time of her latest album release.

I’m not sure how it happened but all of a sudden the name clicked and I realized who I was listening to and felt immense sadness. I remember reading a review of her first Vancouver appearance in the late 90’s and how the critics were blown away by the emotional depth of her singing for someone of such a young age [25]. This video is a song from that first album:

So what did Lhasa do after her first album? She went to France and joined a circus.

I had the privilege of seeing Lhasa perform at the Vancouver Jazz Fest in June 2004. It was a great performance even though I understood very few of the words she sang. This is a video from that time:

Lhasa talent is almost ineffable and she will be missed by many, including me.

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I need to find a radio station that streams @coasttocoastam over the ‘net as http://www.talk1410.com is now a sports station.:-(

• Heading out to MV’s Sustainability Community Breakfast #fb http://www.metrovancouver.org/region/breakfasts/Pages/default.aspx #

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Heard a “Friends of Science” http://is.gd/4OcG3 advertisment on CKNW. Ugh! #climatechange #yvr

Heading out to MV’s Sustainability Community Breakfast #fb http://www.metrovancouver.org/region/breakfasts/Pages/default.aspx

• Chloe is wisely staying under S’s desk as fireworks explode in the ‘hood. A bit nervous, but otherwise okay. #fb #

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Chloe is wisely staying under S’s desk as fireworks explode in the ‘hood. A bit nervous, but otherwise okay. #fb

• It is hard to believe that such a rainy morning could end with brilliant sunshine, but it did. Very happy. #fb #
• All 17 episodes of the The Prisoner [1960s] available online #fb http://bit.ly/pbeUw #

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