The Band released The Weight on its 1968 album Music from Big Pink. It didn’t include the lyrics. I don’t remember when I first heard it but I know it’s been decades. It’s meaning is still a mystery.
I graduated high school in 1968 and went to university for four years. I didn't know it at the time, but I was also graduating into one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of popular music.
Twenty years ago, we renovated the original kitchen. We left the solid oak cabinets, reorganized the layout, tiled the floor and backsplash and added new appliances. We decided it’s time for a change.
British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws. The third law, is "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
If you've noticed your white oak littering the ground with tiny, pea-sized green acorns this summer, don't panic. At first glance, it can look like the tree is in trouble. Fortunately, it’s not always the case.
I was heading out for what should have been a simple grocery run. Milk, bread, the usual. Near the end of the driveway, my right front tire clipped the edge of a snow drift. Suddenly…bang!
Southern Ontario winters are something wonderful. Fields go from brown of Autumn to white. Lakes and rivers turn to ice bringing fishermen out to dig their holes and catch Walleye.