Mind, Body, Soul

This month of June has started out to be hot and humid, and as we are finally enjoying some time outside in the backyard soaking up the sun, perhaps sitting in the backyard reading a book, or maybe enjoying some delicious food with friends, one of the things that can help keep us cool is a nice cold refreshing glass of wine.

This Wednesday and Friday at 7:30 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society (WCMS) will be holding their annual mini concert festival that they call Mozart and More. Consisting of music of Mozart, these performances will also feature music of Kodaly, Shostakovich, Brahms and Canadian composer Michael Oesterle.

April was a month of freezing and thawing that saw the roads here in Winnipeg turn into pot-hole obstacle courses. Hopefully this month of May will be considerably warmer and we will actually be able to get outside and enjoy a nice steak on the barbeque…with perhaps a little wine.

For many of us the television channel PBS brings up thoughts of sitting in front of the TV as a child watching Sesame Street, or perhaps the Electric Company or maybe as we got older… taking in English comedies that originally aired on the BBC. Perhaps for many it brings up iconic personalities such as the painter Bob Ross, Mister Rodgers, or Bill Nye the Science guy.

For us Canadians PBS has been something we have been lucky enough to get from television affiliates south of the Border.