Being WFH I don’t spend a lot of time mingling with people. I actually prefer mingling with Miss Frieda, at least she doesn’t shove the backs of my legs with her shopping cart! But being a bit of a hermit makes for some interesting observations on those occasional interactions with
Thoughts
Philosophy perhaps, or musings or maybe both.
Thoughts
The Resilience of Community
Let’s face it, the times ahead are ‘troubling’ to say the least, politically, financially, spiritually and mental health wise. In times of adversity our natural tendency, especially in the Western World, is to turn inward, taking on far more of the load than we need to. We have been indoctrinated
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The Political Suicides That Would Make Canada Better
We live in interesting times. We have a church that promised $20 million dollars to ‘repay’ the attrocities they committed in residential schools, then reneged on the deal pleading poverty – only to spend $300 million on a new cathedral! We have fundamentalist preachers bleating from the pulpit about how
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Oh Canada…
A thought heading into the long weekend… Even, or especially, here in Ottawa there is some trepidation as we head into the Canada Day celebration – will the convoy-fools make another grandstand play on the hill, will a lone wolf mingle in with the crowd at LeBreton Flats and all
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Literacy – A Pillar of Progress
I read in the news and online all the time how conservatives, in the U.S. and yes, here in Canada as well, are trying to shape the world in an image that is neither Christian or ‘family oriented’ but rather white supremacist / neo-Fascist. One of the primary battlegrounds in
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On Friendship
Perhaps the hardest thing to define, at least in English, with the notable exception of ‘love’ is what friendship is. Like love, friendship has perhaps as many meanings as there are people on this planet. Or perhaps that is the people of this planet divided by 2 if we only