Snapshots

1995:

Ideas staff 1995

David playing guitar with the hockey band

2010, 2012, 2014

2010 puck in the face (hockey)

Dan, Wendell, David, 2014: after the Kentucky conference (Mary Berry)

headstand in the Cayley plot at St.James the Less cemetery, 2012

David's mother Margaret was good at cartwheeels and headstands. She died in her home town of Mansfield in UK in 1996. In 1997 her ashes were brought over and first located near the family cottage in Muskoka. But then in 2012, they were reburied in the Cayley family plot in Toronto. Margaret's marker is beside that of Jutta's mother, Heidi Bechmann, who was buried in the Cayley plot when she died in February 2011.

When both markers had been installed, David did a headstand in their honour.

2021

Feb. 2021: the Illich book arrives (haircuts not allowed b/c of lockdown)

2023 - 2024

bluegrass jam 2023

David in Germany, at the Illich conference 2024

2025

David in Lucca, Italy, at the conference (talking about Illich and Jung) 2025

David's CBC book launch took place just two weeks after Kate's book launch for her novel. David's was at Flying Books, whose owner, Martha Sharpe, was working at Anansi when she was tasked with helping David with his Prisons book. The two of them got on very well. So it was wonderful for David to have his CBC book launch party at Martha's store many years later. Friends reconnected there -- including Mary Sharpe (no relation to Martha!), the midwife who helped Luke and Daniel get born. The photo at the right shows the two of them towering over Mary. They were really glad to see each other.

the CBC book launch 2025

a guest at the launch: Mary Sharpe

March 22, 2026, 80th birthday party

the 80th birthday party -- the Toronto family. Three birthdays: David, Luke, and Alex

June 26, 2026, David's funeral service

chapel service at St.James the Less cemetery

after the funeral -- in the backyard

in the backyard

Funerals are of course another place where friends can reconnect.