Baie-Saint-Paul, par Clarence Gagnon
Winter has come. I was 78 in July, but the photo at the foot of this post was taken on 19 September 2022. I expected to have many wrinkles by the age of 78, but I don’t. However, I have aged. My skin is rather transparent, and my lips are thinner. Moreover, my memory fails me and when night falls, past events leap upon me. I regret some of the decisions I have made.
New Computer
But the business of the day is the purchase of a computer. I needed help choosing the right computer. So, I am in Magog where my friend John helped me to choose a good computer and set it up. I should have replaced the former computer a year ago, but a Covid vaccine caused pericarditis and gout.
These are difficult years: Covid, Putin invading Ukraine, inflation, and a devastatingly sick climate!
The Language Laws
I will no longer discuss Quebec’s language laws. I had to speak English during the decades I lived outside Quebec, but I was in a very friendly environment, and the difficulties I faced were not related to my mother tongue.
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- Colonization and the Revenge of the Cradles (11 January 2014)
- Maria Chapdelaine (26 January 2012)
Sources and Resources
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You look beautiful all the same, Micheline. Can’t wait for the places and times you’ll take us using that new computer of yours. Cheers
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I thank you for your kind words. Winter comes and it may be beautiful.
Pharmacies and various businesses in Sherbrooke still take phone calls in English, and I would not be surprised if French-speaking students enrolled in Champlain-Lennoxville. It’s a short drive away, buses are available, and it’s tuition free. English-speaking students may enroll in French-language CEGEPS. It’s a two-year program after grade XI.
Beauty is very relative. A smile crosses generations, ethnicity, missing limbs, and all kinds of differences.
The new computer is excellent. 🙂
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A beautiful gallery and gentle portrait
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Thank you, Derrick,
Clarence Gagnon was a great artist. He settled in Baie-Saint-Paul, a magnificent area of Quebec and, ironically, a better age. There were no language laws. Gagnon illustrated Maria Chapdelaine. I was so pleased to see likes at the foot of my post. I hadn’t for a year. One does not need popularity, but a community is essential. There is a conversation.
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