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Buckle Up!
25 Apr 2020

Buckle Up!

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, An Altered Reality - Life in a Pandemic, Day Zero - Initial Shock and Isolation | 0

“Many years later we found ourselves in Canada
Trying to save our marriage and perhaps catch a few fish,
Whatever seemed easier…….,”
– Lake Marie – John Prine

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In Community
18 Apr 2020

In Community

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, An Altered Reality - Life in a Pandemic, Day Zero - Initial Shock and Isolation | 0

“We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.” – S. Kelley Harrell

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Defying Gravity
6 Apr 2020

Defying Gravity

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, An Altered Reality - Life in a Pandemic, Day Zero - Initial Shock and Isolation | 0

“I am so tired I can’t stand up; it feels like somebody tripled gravity” – COVID Patient

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Fiddling While Rome Burns
4 Apr 2020

Fiddling While Rome Burns

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, An Altered Reality - Life in a Pandemic, Day Zero - Initial Shock and Isolation | 0

Buy me a flute, and a gun that shoots
Tail gates and substitutes
Strap yourself to a tree with roots
You ain’t going nowhere
– Bob Dylan

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The Road Less Traveled – New England
23 Oct 2019

The Road Less Traveled – New England

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason, Travel | 0

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost

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Tron Doras
15 Jul 2019

Tron Doras

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Travel | 0

To know where you come from is to know where you are going.
– Russell Paton

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Cuba Libra
30 Mar 2019

Cuba Libra

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, Travel | 0

When the waiter came by, he told us that the guests who had just left were descendants of Fidel Castro.

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Cuba, Havana, Travel
Time and Tide – The Maritimes
2 Oct 2018

Time and Tide – The Maritimes

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Travel | 0

“Time and tide wait for no man”
– Geoffrey Chaucer

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Maritimes, Hopewell Rocks
From Ashes to Phoenix
3 Nov 2017

From Ashes to Phoenix

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, Science and Reason, Travel | 0

“How can you rise, if you have not burned”

― Hiba Fatima Ahmad

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Tilting at Windmills – Spain and Portugal
20 Feb 2017

Tilting at Windmills – Spain and Portugal

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason, Travel | 0

“Perhaps to be too practical is madness.”

Miquel de Cervantes – Don Quixote

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Spain, Portugal, Don Quixote, Windmill

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