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Studio 365: Day 324

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One week later and I have yet to clean my palette. The trio of liberté, égalité and fraternité has been beside me in the studio all week.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Trio

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“What comes in threes?” Cheri asks for this weeks Photo Challenge: Trio.

Answer: Three of this morning’s street re-paving crew on our block.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory

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Victory Square, Vancouver 18.11.15

One week ago today this square was filled with many thousands attending the 95th Annual Remembrance Day Service…

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Two days later war came again to the streets of Paris and sadly another date must now be added to an ever-growing list of days of remembrance:

  • September 11, 2001 – New York
  • July 7, 2005 – London
  • November 26, 2008 – Mumbai
  • September 21, 2013 – Nairobi
  • January 7, 2015 – Paris
  • October 31, 2015 – Sinai
  • November 12, 2015 – Beirut
  • November 13, 2015 – Paris

…and too many more.

We will remember…We must Remember

Studio 365: Day 319

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I wrote, on Studio 365: Day 11 after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, how I fell in love with Paris on my first visit there as a young boy in August 1962. I posted a drawing I had made sitting in the Tuileries Garden on a beautiful summer’s Day. Now, here I am on Day 319 once again expressing solidarity and sympathy through the best way I know how with all those mourning today in Paris, in France and around the world. The drawing from that same never-to-be-forgotten visit in 1962 is of one of bridges over the Seine, when one of the most beautiful cities in the world inspired a young boy who has felt that inspiration ever since.  Je suis Paris.

Studio 365: Day 316

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Westminster Bridge I 12.11.15

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Palette 12.11.15

Studio 365: Day 315

Day 314

We Remember 11.11.15

91st Remembrance Day Service, Cenotaph, Victory Square, Vancouver, November 11, 2015