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by bardo 🍁
2021-11-03
poetry & prose

daylight

Dawn hides itself deeper in the morning,As night’s darkness waxes upon winterYear after year, as predictable as Lunar orbits bring the tides andIce drawn heaps of crystalline snow Greet shortened hours of sunlightHonouring plotted courses through space andTime and seasons passing now and ever. – bardo I have reserved some…

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2021-10-14
life and stuff

Daylight Savings Vote

A few of my friends and I met up earlier this evening, er, late in the afternoon for an after work run around the neighbourhood. As the winter approaches, daylight runs are going to get increasingly rare, and I’ll need to fish my running headlamps from storage and make sure…

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about

It’s about more than just food.

It’s about a mindset and a perspective on living a full, active and interesting life.

The Cast Iron Guy blog heated up in January 2021 as a journal of uncomplicated things, life lived, and a mindset that reflects the philosophical practicality of well-seasoned cast iron frying pan: enduring, simple, down-to-earth & extremely useful.

I write regularly from here in the Canadian Prairies about things that interest me, including the artistic inspiration I get outdoors, travel, gear, growing and cooking food, fire craft, suburban and nature trails, running, and (of course) the clever and curious ways I find to use my many pieces of cast iron cookware.

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