FIRE AT TOTAL LOSS FARM: the case of the missing mailbox
A CURIOUS PHOTO of this lost object suddenly appeared in my email recently, under the subject line “Total Loss artifact.” I gasped when I opened the attachment.
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Aug 19
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He was a Toronto industrialist … until they sent him to the sanatorium
THIS IS MY great-grandfather, Robert Kilgour — a handsome dude! It’s a haunting, melancholic portrait, a black-and-white photograph colourized by hand I believe. His beard and countenance resemble Sigmund Freud, who lived during roughly the same era in a different part of the world.
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My cardiologist never smiles, but I still love him
I’VE COME TO ADORE my cardiologist, even though he sometimes delivers disturbing news and forces me to contemplate my mortality every time I’m in his office. I didn’t always feel this way about him.
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A tale of two Lees, Harper and Fanny (mostly the latter)
When I would visit my friend Neal Evans’s house as a teenager, it was always full of his mother Lee’s presence. This included artistic vigour, lots of projects, and a strong dose of social activism in the air. Read more
The boy whose breath deserts him when he sleeps
It’s a busy Wednesday night at the Fergus swimming pool. Babies as young as a few month’s old are being introduced to the water in the small, warm pool.
Every breath you take
At this time of the year Vancouver is verdant, warm and blooming. And well it should be: spring has already been on the go for two months, or sometimes even four. Read more
I’m Art Kilgour, a former graphic designer, now retired, living in Guelph, Ontario. This blog has morphed over the years, with lots about farmily, running, parents, and travel, and increasingly now, memoir.
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