{"id":8,"date":"2014-01-20T15:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T23:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2014-03-02T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:55:59","slug":"ians-truths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Ian&#8217;s Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=405\">Happy Birthday Emily<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nToday, as I write this, is Emily Carr\u2019s 145th birthday.\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d recognize the day with this photo of my back yard, and my favourite Emily Quotation.\u00a0 This quotation always reminds me of this little spot of west coast forest that I call home.\u00a0 There have been many times over the years I\u2019ve lived ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=383\">All in my back yard&#8230;<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">If you take a walk through the woods in behind my house, before long you\u2019ll come across a large concrete pipe winding its way among the trees.\u00a0 It\u2019s old, covered with a layer of moss in places, but still remarkably intact.\u00a0 In some places, it lies directly on the forest floor, in others it\u2019s raised ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=342\">Newborn&#8230;<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Newborn&#8230;\n&nbsp;\n\nSandra noticed a deer laying down in a corner of our garden yesterday.\u00a0 Thinking she was just taking a nap, Sandra went about her business.\u00a0 A short while later, she noticed that the deer was still there \u2013 but now she had a tiny fawn with her, still struggling to stand on its brand new, ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=328\">To Everything There Is a Season&#8230;<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">To Everything There Is a Season\u2026\n&nbsp;\nTiming, they say, is everything.\u00a0 A moment too late, a moment too soon, and you can completely miss out.\u00a0 Doing the right thing, but at the wrong time, is often no different than doing the wrong thing.\nAs a photographer, I\u2019ve learned to focus on the details \u2013 not just the ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=308\">Remembering Walden<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Remembering Walden\nI\u2019ve long been an admirer of Henry David Thoreau.\u00a0 One of the keenest observers of the natural world ever to put pen to paper, Thoreau has a great deal to teach us about our relationships \u2013 with nature, with one another, and with ourselves.\nI first became immersed in Thoreau\u2019s writings many moons ago when ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=296\">On Gardening&#8230;<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nThis blog is written with unreserved apologies to all my family and friends in Ontario and Alberta and other places across the country eastward of the Fraser Valley \u2013 i.e. all those places that are beyond Hope (sorry, couldn\u2019t resist \u2013 just a little wet coast humour). But it\u2019s the middle of February, and here ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=272\">There are places I remember<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">&nbsp;\n&nbsp;\nThere are places I remember, all my life&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Lennon\n&nbsp;\nI heard Bob Dylan\u2019s iconic song Mr. Tambourine Man playing on the radio the other day (thank you CBC!), and it triggered a memory, immediately transporting me back to a very special place and to a moment, long ago, that rests within me and that surfaces ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=252\">Everything is Connected&#8230;<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">&nbsp;\nStand still in the forest, and listen carefully. The trees are talking about you.\nWell, perhaps not in quite the way we\u2019d understand that as humans \u2013 it\u2019s unlikely they\u2019re passing judgment on your dress code, for example \u2013 but they are communicating with one another.\nThrough their roots and through massive interconnected networks of fungal strands, ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=228\">A Tree for Christmas&#8230;<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">&nbsp;\n&nbsp;\nA Tree for Christmas&#8230;\n&nbsp;\nNot exactly your typical household Christmas tree, I grant, but here\u2019s a tree \u2013 for you \u2013 for Christmas.\n&nbsp;\nSince long before the advent of Christianity, people \u2013 particularly those in Europe and other northern climes \u2013 celebrated the solstice and the turning of the year by adorning their homes with greenery.\u00a0 This ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=213\">The threat to our heritage comes not only from those who would tear it down, but also from those who would look on and do nothing.<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nCanada\u2019s history is rife with tales of struggle and hardship, of brave souls enduring the elements, building lives and communities often against great odds. Our stories tend, often, toward the personal, the intimate, rather than grand spectacles and epic events, and our true heroes are as likely to be our neighbours \u2013 ordinary people of ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=188\">Life Isn&#8217;t About Waiting for the Storm to Pass<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Life isn\u2019t about waiting for the storm to pass, it\u2019s about learning to dance in the rain.\n&nbsp;\nThis inspirational quotation by Vivian Greene popped into my head recently as I was reading Naomi Klein\u2019s extraordinary book \u201cThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate\u201d. If you haven\u2019t yet read this book, then I recommend (no, I insist) ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?p=96\">Why it Matters &#8211; the proposed sale of B.C. Binning House<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">&nbsp;\nI recently spent several hours poring through the \u201cReasons for Judgment\u201d issued by Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick of the BC Supreme Court in considering whether or not The Land Conservancy would be permitted to sell one of its protected properties \u2013 B.C. Binning House in West Vancouver \u2013 in order to pay off some of its ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?page_id=8\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ian&#039;s Truths - My Truths...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mytruths.ca\/?page_id=8\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ian&#039;s Truths - 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