(First published online in the early years of 2k) The weeks preceding the end of the 1900’s and beginning of the 2K’s saw a plethora of polls and pronouncements regarding the Best This or Best That of the Millenium. While curiously enough 98% of the ‘greatest’ were invented between 1990
Life Lists
The Perfect Dinner Party
Have you seen those lists of the famous or infamous people, living or dead, that you would invite to a dinner party? Preferring to be the host, I probably would be more worried about the menu than the people, but here goes – my top 10 list of people I
Life
Touching Greatness
(An excerpt from the yet to be published ‘Oh The Humanity – the memoirs of a less than memorable person’) I have been lucky in my life to have touched greatness, the combination of time and place that made possible a chance to meet my heroes. As a lad I
Words Worth
Linguaphile For The Love of People
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela In Canada we have two official languages, English and French, and until recently the two languages were
Life Recycling
Besp-Oak Recycling
I am a collector, though not quite a hoarder (my wife might disagree) with a penchant for seeing discarded ‘things’ as some ‘thing’ else that could be quite useful. Perhaps this is a result of growing up a fair jaunt from the hardware store without the economic means to buy
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Shinrin-yoku – Forest Bathing
The Japanese are amazing people, able to distill concepts down to their basics and in so doing create incredible beauty of sight, mind and soul. Wabi-sabi is one example, creating beauty in imperfection, like repairing a cracked vase with gold instead of heading to Amazon for a replacement as we