Memories aren’t the full story for anyone. They are more of a highlight reel of our lives. This is probably why four people will never remember a shared event in exactly the same way.  

If at all.  

What we remember is more a matter of perspective about an event. How important it was. Like a green stick fracture one summer that my mum and sister don’t remember at all.  Yet I clearly remember every pool, lake and sprinkler I had to stay clear of to keep the damn cast dry. 

No one even signed it.  

Not even my sister, who broke my wrist in the first place….

On the other hand, my own children have grown up and seem to remember  a volume of events of which I have no recollection. I’m considering getting a tattoo of Eyore on my right forearm that says, “It’s all my fault.”

I figure that will cover most of the bases. 

Thanks to Scarborough Dude for permission to record this from Dicks and Janes Fall edition.

Music in this episode:

Crow Sunday by Javolenus (NiGiD) (c) copyright 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license.

Keychains, resin cast dolls of boys in lederhosen and girls in dirndl skirts. Salt and pepper shakers, spoons and, of course, tea towels.

Yes, I know, I’ve brought them home for near and dear, friends and co-workers to show I thought of them while scrambling around someplace historic or scenic.
I don’t bring much home for me because my souvenir isn’t cast in resin or nicely glazed china.

Maybe a bottle of something we can’t get here. To be shared with others.
Anything else may remind me but a post-it note to pick up milk does the same thing.

Wherever you go, whatever you see, it is the food, the wine and the sound of laughter that will be your best souvenir.

Music in this episode:

Waiting for the morning bus by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: Pitx

Hiking Song by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: Stefan Kartenberg

Toronto is called cold and heartless by most of the country. It is big and life doesn’t slow down for many of the people there. But it does have a heart. It’s just a matter of taking a few minutes to slow down and look around. 

We’ve been away from the beach for a long time but have come back to celebrate December 1 – Canada’s National Day of Podcasting. 

Let the celebration of ‘eh’ and the Canadian diphthong (about/aboot) begin…wooooohoooo

The Radiant Light Orchestra by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: fluffy, debbizo, GeeArtriasRose, Apoxode

Wet Doodles by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: Javolenus

One of my favorite quotes is from Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town “Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.” If you’re going to take Thornton’s advice, the place to go is Paris.

Paris is a city that makes it easy to become a traveller.

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That kid you saw staggering down main street, hooting and puking on Canada Day may well be the doctor you’ll see in emergency next week. He’ll be wearing the white coat and you’ll be the one barfing as a kidney stone exits through the gift shop.

Welcome to middle age.

And it ain’t for sissies.

Music in this episode:

Day to day by Doug Astrop
The theme from the Dougie Hoser Show
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy arr by Kevin MacLeod

Yes, it is genetic. The Swedes are fast, the Russians are machines but nobody plays this game like the folk that invented it.

There is field hockey and even pool hockey but skating on a winter morning, on a pond, on a lake or even on an indoor rink is, really, the only game.

So, don’t ever call it “ICE” hockey around me…

Background music is “Champion” and “Once in a Lifetime Solo Piano Version” by Doug Astrop

The Hanson Brothers‘ tune My Game was used with permission, cuz they’re awesome, and I have some dirt on Johnny.

It’s one of the big no-no’s to tie a podcast to one season as they can be listened to at any time of the year. So, this isn’t actually a Christmas podcast:it’s about the spirit of forgiveness which, in my mind, should be practised year round. And maybe a bit about Christmas.

Because I love Christmas.

And it’s my podcast. Ho ho ho…

Thanks for visiting Baba’s Beach today. If you have any comments, we’d love to hear them.

Please visit us at www.babasbeach.ca and send comments to [email protected]

Music from the Podsafe Music Network this week (haha):  Artist links will be here soon – buoy guy promises

Baba’s Beach Podcast #26 – And then she just exploded

Just another Yankee with a Maple Leaf on her back-pack

While still engaged to mom, dad whisked off to the University of Washington to get a BA in theatre. Mom and dad corresponded faithfully until one day Dad mentioned working in a Sorority to supplement the GI bill paying his way. “You mean a Fraternity,
don’t you” was mom’s reply. Nope, dad replied, he was pretty sure it’s a Sorority cause men don’t look this good in satin. My parents married that fall and my sister was born in Seattle the following year.

We always assumed because she lives in Canada, pays taxes in Canada and never declared U.S. citizenship after reaching the age of 21, she was a Canadian. Until, that is, she had to apply for her passport and was told she really wasn’t a Canadian…or American…or, well, anything. It took a signed declaration by my father, his birth certificate to prove his citizenship and the intervention of Rowe’s Member of Parliament to finally cut the red tape for the passport to be issued.

Never take life in this country for granted. It is a gift, a blessing and a jewel beyond price.

Visit Jowi Taylor and the amazing Voyageur at www.sixstringnation.com , better yet, go to your local book store and buy his book.

Thanks for visiting Baba’s Beach today. If you have any comments, we’d love to hear them.

Music from the Podsafe Music Network this week:

Song of Assisi by -MARC GUNN – Celtic Songs, Sci Fi, and Cats

Maple Leaf Rag by Jeanne Backofen Craig

September Wind by Hardwire Speers

O Canada by *Danny Fong* (Some Tracks Feat. A cappella quartet, ‘Mixed Nuts’ or other friends and family)

Noodling by Jay Moonah (Thanks to Daniele Rossi for the recording of the 6 String Nation guitar at PAB 2009)

To Michelangelo the process of his art was to look at a block of marble atdawn in order to see the figure it contained and then to take away allthe pieces that didn’t belong.

I seem to be a work in progress with
lots of pieces being removed but I’m pretty sure the final result won’texactly be an angel.  Maybe I’m just not ready to be one yet.

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

Thanks for visiting Baba’s Beach today. If you have any comments, we’d love to hear them.

Music from the Podsafe Music Network this week:

Elegy for M by Ash Verjee

VoiceDance – Choir SATB by Danny The Multitracker

They Can’t Take That Away From Me by Sylvia Bennett

Something good can be found in just about anything, I guess. Sulfadrugs and penicillin came out of the First World War; RADAR, plasticsand synthetic fuels from the 2nd.

The Vietnam War brought about a revolution in technological support for the disabled–I kid you not–and a healthy distrust of being told “this is for your own good.”

Maybethe current unpleasantness in the Middle East will lead to an end todependence on Hydrocarbons.

But wouldn’t it be great if we could cure cancer without starting a war to do it?

“You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.” Will Rogers

Thanks for visiting Baba’s Beach today. If you have any comments, we’d love to hear them.

Music from the Podsafe Music Network this week:

Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the (excellent) motion picture “Once”