Author: Mark

Life Thoughts

Empathy as Worldview

We have just ‘exited’ one of the greatest upheavals of our modern era – The Covid Pandemic. And how has Covid affected our psyche on a personal, national and global level? I wonder about this a lot, perhaps more than is healthy, but as a ‘survivor’ I have an acute

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Rusty

(Excerpted from my unpublished book ‘K444 – Growing Up In The Shadow of a Rusty Boat‘) The view from the maple tree outside my bedroom window was spectacular, stretching from Cape Mudge lighthouse to the northeast to the smoke rising over the pulp mill in Powell River in the distant

Recycling

Knottiness Continues

So it was fun playing with leather, making paracord bracelets. After a couple of wrong turns I finally have a clasp I can live with. But there hanging in my closet was a rather woebegone leather belt, I think I picked it up on one of those ubituitous ‘FREE’ piles

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In The Moment

My dog, Miss Frieda, likes to sleep in the hallway outside my office door, her nose just in the doorway to remind me she is there. It seems such a simple thing, amidst my break-fixing a complex computer system or researching a wonky linux service. And yet it is quite