The blog has remained dormant for years. Oddly, it seems that the reason was that after I stopped traveling for work purposes, I stopped blogging. In retrospect, I see that I used the blog as a way to occupy my "personal life" while on business trips. Most of my posts happened while I was in airplanes or hotel rooms, and I haven't been doing any traveling now for a number of years. That's good from a carbon footprint perspective, at least.
I will try to get it going again now. I had actually started that process most of a year ago, while attempting to uplift my blog to a newer version of the platform it's running on. I was pretty disappointed with that process, and abandoned it before finishing. I will have to give another thought to how to modernize kell.ca in the near future.
My interests continue to mostly be the same... music, travel (perhaps mostly by boat or bicycle now), environmental concerns, and technology. I hope to post some thoughts in all of these areas.
Let's start with a few books I've recently been reading. Two that have provided an awakening for me have been:
The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
This book provided a broad view of the relationship between humans (and all animals) and the plant life around us, focusing particularly on trees. I found it full of surprising information, and it goes along at such a great pace as to remain interesting throughout. I don't tend to revisit books too often these days, but I suspect I will re-read this one in the near future.
Regenesis by George Monbiot
I'm actually only partway through this book right now, and am finding it similarly full of information that I wasn't truly aware of. Lots of it clarifies the impact of livestock on the world's ecosystems, and counters some disinformation about the pros and cons of certain types of farming. I'm finding it quite interesting, and well paced.
Let's hope that's enough to get me back in the groove. These days I play bass guitar in a band, so the groove is where I belong.