Last night I reorganized my bookshelves. By reorganize, I mean disassembling stacked crates and reassembling them in a different way to maximize storage, while incorporating a new crate from the second-hand store. It was like working with building blocks. The crates were mostly my father’s, his initials ‘AF’ (Art Frizzell) stamped onto the end of …
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Ghosts in the Room
In memory of my mum, Peggy Frizzell, who passed on this day, August 20th, in 2018. Writing from the heart is tricky when the source is broken. Leonard Cohen said that’s how the light gets in. People treat sorrow like a plague rather than a river that runs through life, which we all must drink …
Oreo’s Obituary
Oreo Frizzell was born in Prince Edward County, in 2007, on a farm just outside Picton, Ontario. At six weeks old he moved to Cressy, Prince Edward County, after being picked up, early in the morning, by his newly adopted brother Colin, and his nephews Ryan and Mitchell. He was Christened, Oreo, by his niece, …
In Memory
Arthur (Art) Colin Frizzell 1923- 2003. On July 2, 2003, our family—and the world—lost an exceptional person. In Memory A breeze across a field to cool the brow A cloud’s shadow moving through the garden The rain that falls when leaves are wilting A light guiding homeward when lost The answer that comes when befuddled …