My father opted to solve his high cholesterol with walking instead of medication. And because he was who he was, his walking program included detailed diagrams of the local shopping mall’s step count, and an elaborate playlist of songs of walking-appropriate tempos, organized by beats per minute.

Because he shared those playlists with we boys freely—hoping, I think, that we’d develop a walking habit earlier than he did—I have a visceral sense of his walking pace. And so coming across a new track in his BPM range never fails to connect me to him.

Which is why my first thought on hearing Wolf Alice’s Don’t Delete The Kisses was “I should send this to Dad.”

Alec Baldwin interviews Eddie Marsan and David Arquette. He is such a masterful interviewer. And Marsan and Arquette are more interesting that you might assume.

Sketched over macchiato number two at The Shed.

To be clear, there actually is a need to get vaccinated.

The (other) Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications section is among my favourite destinations to check daily, made easier by being available as an RSS feed.

Two musical gems from yesterday:

• Despite what you have been singing in the shower, the first line of Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon is “Desert loving in your eyes all the way”, not “There’s a loving in your eyes all the way” as we had it (Pass notes 4,278, 5 May, G2, page 3).
• In an interview, Green Gartside described the brightness of Joni Mitchell’s musical ascent as pyrotechnic and her vocal runs as melismatic. Mistranscriptions rendered these as “psychedelic” and “melodramatic” (‘She took off like a rocket’, 22 June, G2, page 8).

Another runner in the night.

Prince Edward Island is missing Miꞌkmaq-language place names on OpenStreetMap, something easily resolved using this list from the Miꞌkmaq Confederacy.

Here’s how.

Go to OpenStreetMap.org and search for the English-language place name. Say, Beech Point:

Click on the search result, and then Edit (creating an OpenStreetMap account in the process, if you don’t already have one).

Scroll down to the “Tags” section and click the “+”, and then enter name:mic for the tag name, and the Miꞌkmaq name as the value:

Click the “upload” button (upward-pointing arrow) in the top-right corner of the map, and add a note indicating what you entered, and click Upload.

As you go along, you can use this Overpass Turbo link to see the list of Miꞌkmaq names already added:

Via Clark I learned about The Shed a few weeks ago. I made my first visit this afternoon and had an exceptional macchiato. 

It’s located in a corner of the Royal Canadian Legion building on Pownal Street. It’s as close to a Berlin-style third wave “coffee, coffee and more coffee” coffee shop, with a tiny roaster in the corner and owners who are obviously coffee-talented.

Camera phone hack: shoot in panorama mode, but vertically. The iPhone, at least, is smart enough to figure out what you’re doing. And the vertical is often a lot more interesting that the horizontal. 

Here’s the back yard at 100 Prince Street last night about an hour before sunset:

Evidence of the runway that Ethan the Dog used to bound off the back deck and into yard is still evidence, but nature is gradually sprouting it back to life.

Three years ago I installed brochure holders in the Charlottetown Boulder Park. I’m happy to say they’re still there, and, as of yesterday, refilled with brochures.

This spring Olivia was asked to name her “happy place,” a place she could go in her mind when she needed to invoke a sense of peace. She named Natuurcamping De Hoge Veluwe, the Dutch campground we stayed 7 years ago this week.

This happened to be exactly the same happy place that I’d chosen when led through a similar exercise.

I suppose this shouldn’t come as a surprise to either of us: 2014 was our last great summer with Catherine, and our time at De Hoge Veluwe fell in the heart of that. Combine that with a pastoral campsite, free bicycles, hot chocolate for breakfast and Van Gogh for lunch, and, yes, happy place.