(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
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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
Breakfast Dinner
Easy Peasy Homemade Yogurt
Yogurt is really not that hard to make, although it does take a bit of time. But in the end the time you take will be well worth it and once you have sampled your own yogurt you will be hard pressed to ever go back to the store bought
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I Recognize THAT Cognate!
Cognates: Words in two more more languages with similar spellings and pronunciations. They also have similar meanings. Have you noticed words that sound alike in different languages that end up with similar meanings? Like the word ‘telephone’ which sounds the same in English and French (without accent of course) and