Alex Colville, Canadian painter, 95

I was browsing through news articles on the Globe and Mail when I spied the photo of a painting entitled To Prince Edward Island and thought that I'd seen that style of painting somewhere. Then the name on the article's title, Alex Colville, stirred something at the back of my mind: an article in the Reader's Digest probably 30 years back and accompanied by hyperealistic paintings of a pointer dog, a loan cow grazing in a meadow, an old man sitting on veranda looking out to sea. Yes, I remember Alex Colville.

A decision

I was supposed to walk down to the chapel to go to confession late this afternoon. I eventually decided at the last minute to go next week instead when I thought I better learn how to write a flex program for my computer theory class. It was a good thing I did because I later learned that the priest who comes to hear confession got stuck in traffic in Manila and couldn't make it to town in time. Now I'm relieved I didn't waste two hours waiting in line to go to confession when there was none in the end.