The Inviting Life

 Hello again, citizens of the blogosphere!  I hope you have been getting along okay.  Today is officially the first day of spring. Here, in James Bay, the Great Blue Herons have made their way back to the park.  Majestic prehistoric-looking creatures. A few things have crossed my path this week, that have, in Marie Kondo's words "sparked joy".  None of them involve folding underwear in tidy concentric bundles. Come to think of it, I should be putting away laundry right now, but, before I unknot my knickers, I thought I would share a couple of things. Retro Pick: The China Syndrome (Criterion Streaming Service or rent from Pic A Flic Video).  If you liked the grimly fascinating HBO mini-series Chernobyl, bookend it with this retro thriller.  Featuring Hollywood luminaries Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, and Jack Lemmon. China Syndrome raises formative questions about how safe nuclear power plants really are.  At its core (see what I did there...

 Hello, people of the blogosphere.  How are you?.Are you managing okay?  Spring is on the horizon and, if all goes to plan, vaccines.  It is hard, for even for the most curmudgeonly among us, not to be feeling at least a sliver of optimism.  So, in keeping with a certain happy hopefulness, I thought I would share a couple of things that brought me happiness this week, along with one of my favourite recipes.  Last year, alas, we do not get around to watching many movies.  Shift work (me) and long work hours (Steve) conspired in such a way to make hunkering down, even for a couple of hours, a challenge. Our attention spans were fractured from workplace worries and demoralizing news headlines.  This year, we decided to make a concerted effort to watch movies, and boy oh boy, we did not expect our dedication to pay off the way it did with Lee Isaac Chung's lovely,  semi-autobiographical movie Minari.   MOVIE PICK: Here is a review f...