TO MOVE OR DIE A LITTLE...

TO MOVE OR DIE A LITTLE... 
By Bernard Bujold-
I've always considered that moving is dying a little; and emptying a storage locker is an even harder death than just moving... 
This is my experience at the end of June 2020 and I had to search in my depths to find the energy and courage to do it. 
In the end, I succeeded and you could say that afterwards it is a form of rebirth, life after death... 
You also make discoveries when you empty a storage locker! In my case, while looking at photos from 2004, I tried to track down on Facebook a photographer with whom I had collaborated and whom I had found friendly. 
I found her again! 
She died in May 2009 of cancer, she was 46 years old (Nancy Lessard). 
Have a good summer 2020 and a good moving to those who will have to live the experience this season!  
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QUEBEC'S NATIONAL HOLIDAY - JUNE 24, 2020

QUEBEC'S NATIONAL HOLIDAY - JUNE 24, 2020 -
By Bernard Bujold -
Happy National Holiday of Quebec, despite the heat, rain and confinement . 
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DONALD TRUMP AND THE WAR OF 2020

THE WAR OF NOVEMBER 2020 -
By Bernard Bujold-
The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, started his campaign for the War of November 2020 on the first day of the Summer, on June 20, 2020. 
The President talked for almost two hours in front of his supporters, and he was in a great energy. One could say that he was energetic as a man of 50 years old... 
The rally was the first since the Coronavirus confinement. 
The fight is now full speed ahead to November 3, 2020.  
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THE SUMMER OF 2020

THE SUMMER SEASON 2020 -
By Bernard Bujold - 
 The 2020 Summer season starts today, Saturday 20 June at 5.44 pm. 
Will it be a good summer? 
According to weather experts, it will be hot, but we can also predict a somewhat "dull" summer because there are no major social activities on the program this year. There will of course be the sun and the cottage, for those who love the sun, and those who have a cottage... 
Personally, my favourite season, in terms of life memories, is summer but it is autumn for the temperature because I don't like heat for heat's sake. My favourite childhood memory in summer is the cows that came to graze in front of the family home. I loved to watch and talk to the herd! Those were the good old days, which no longer exist today, not even in the Gaspé Peninsula. 
If the 2020 era is far from the romanticism of my childhood, and I am also in another cycle of life (not to say an old man), we must however continue to live and enjoy each present moment (the NOW moment). We must accept what life offers us, with or without a cottage, young or old! 
Have a good summer 2020!  
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THE PLEASURE OF COFFEE...

THE PLEASURE OF COFFEE... 
By Bernard Bujold -
For the past few years, my favorite coffee shop in Montreal was the NESPRESSO on Crescent Street. I liked to go there because the atmosphere was pleasant. 
The confinement changed everything. 
I wanted to revisit my favourite café on the eve of the first day of summer 2020, and I thought I was on a spaceship, like Commander Picard's ENTERPRISE. A little more and I was offered a hologram coffee! If the outside window hasn't changed, the inside welcome is everything but that of a coffee shop. 
I was able to leave with a ration of capsules, but I had to wait until I got home to enjoy it, in the company of Ulysses and the herd... 
Have a good summer 2020! 
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JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND THE MONEY...

Canadian politics in 2020, Justin Trudeau's style...
(Serge Chapleau - La Presse June 17, 2020)

IT'S GREGORY CHARLES's FAULT...

IT'S GREGORY CHARLES's FAULT... -
By Bernard Bujold - 
Prime Minister Canada, Justin Trudeau, wanted to do everything possible to seduce the UN leaders and to win their support, he offered them a virtual Gregory Charles show the day before the vote! Following the result of the vote and its failure, one could conclude that the show did not please to offer the people of the UN... 
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THE PLEASURE OF LIFE...

THE PLEASURE OF LIFE... 
By Bernard Bujold - 
What's left in life if there's no more fun? 
After my Apple store on Sainte-Catherine Street, which erected a giant plywood wall in front of its window; my favourite museum on Sherbrooke Street, which has become difficult to access; my Portuguese restaurant on Peel Street, which has been closed for months; my favourite classical music radio station has disappeared from the airwaves to make way for a kind of pop-disco radio station style Travolta, whose music reminds me of the Joker coming down the stairs in the movie Batman... How far can we see all our happiness disappear from our lives and continue to be happy? 
I loved the classical radio, invented by Jean-Pierre Coallier and taken up by Grégory Charles. 
Closing it is for me as a personal mourning! 
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