Good People, Good News I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather… J.W. von Goethe From experience I know that when you see the glass ½ full instead of ½ empty you […]
Traveling is a fool’s paradise
Can Belonging Save Us from Ourselves? Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of place: an affect to be intoxicated with the new sights and sounds, but I am not – For the hole within me goes with me wherever I go. – from Self Reliance by Henry D. […]
Planting an Inheritance
Planting an Inheritance When my wife and I were newly and blissfully married we moved in Pennsylvania, where I worked at a small, progressive private High School teaching Physics to kids whose parents were living ‘alternative lifestyles’. We found the cutest little renovated chicken coop to live in [teachers are not ‘over-paid’ in the USA] […]
Canadians, Stop Being Naïve! (please)
Canadians, Stop Being Naïve! (please) Why showing a lack of experience, wisdom, and judgment is not helping us out of our self-made mess I can’t stand it anymore: Canadians act like a bunch of Boy Scouts at a Hell’s Angels Jamboree. Perhaps it was the article I read in the McGill student newspaper in 1978 […]
Uncivilize Yourself
Uncivilize Yourself The case for Uncivilization Song of the Builders by Mary Oliver [4] On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and that way. How great was […]