Tag: nature
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2015 – Killarney
Read More: 2015 – KillarneyConsidering our long history with canoeing, it is perhaps surprising that we had not yet laid eyes on the fabled Killarney Provincial Park
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2013 – Charleston Lake
Read More: 2013 – Charleston LakeThis trip would not have been a good introduction to canoe camping, or even camping. Not that we experienced any disasters, but the weather
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2010 – Canisbay Lake
Read More: 2010 – Canisbay LakeWe had camped at Canisbay Lake before and had seen that loading up the canoe required only a short carry from the parking lot. And we wouldn’t
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The Age of Aquarius
Read More: The Age of AquariusThe Middledom Manifesto: This is where I stand, neither to the left or to the right, but feet feeling their way through the middle, between the past and the future, between the good and the bad, between certainty and doubt.
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Cupido
Read More: CupidoA tale of deconstruction: He is alone. The dyke is still wrapped in morning mist and the sheep that keep looming up are standing motionless, except for one pleading lamb
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Objects of Affection
Read More: Objects of AffectionThese photographs, by Stiny’s son Henry de Jong, were created shortly after her home, lovingly crafted over many years, became an estate to be quickly dismantled and dispersed.
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Reel History
Read More: Reel HistoryWhy The Dutch Genetic Origins is So Mysterious Dutch DNA Mystery Exposed
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Keep in the Castle
Read More: Keep in the CastleBuild walls to keep out the bad and you have a small garden of Eden — ‘paradeisos’, literally, an enclosed park. Castles and their compounds, cities with walls and even humble homes are meant to be places of peace and well being, protecting us from threatening forces. They are not aggressive by nature (though they…
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Map
Read More: MapMemoirs van Cor de Jong (1928-2025). We zijn dankbaar voor het venster in zijn wereld dat hij ons heeft nagelaten.
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Cornelis de Jong
Read More: Cornelis de Jong1928 – 2025 Preface by Henry de Jong Cornelis de Jong was a quiet, unassuming man, not easily drawn into arguments, but always ready with a story or two from his life experiences. Like my own father, my father-in-law had a checkered career that made him more worldly wise than most and cultivated his observant…