My parents were married for over 50 years. Their 50th anniversary was a big deal in the community. It was a lovely occasion with lots of friends and family gathering and giving them congratulations. At the time I was in my second marriage and I thought to myself, “Is this something to which I should […]
Attend the Circle
I have noticed a rather disturbing trend of late. It is not disturbing in the sense that you might think, but possibly for completely different reasons. Many of my readers know well how much I struggle with technology. It seems like a “three steps forward, two steps back” relationship. But this is just about how […]
Contributions and Expectations
When I was a kid I had severe allergies. This was at a time before allergies were common knowledge (yes…I am that old). Some were to food, but the most deadly ones at the time were to grain dust. Now, growing up in rural Saskatchewan, one would think that you would build up a resistance […]
Playfulness
When I was a teen I was very much into play. I would not play the games of children, but I would play at different things. For example, if I was shopping with my mother in a grocery store I would pull random things off of the shelves and put them in the shopping carts […]
Waving our Flags
It is estimated that in the twentieth century alone, human beings managed to kill more than two hundred million other human beings in wars and through genocide. Human beings seem to be unique among the planet’s organisms in that we harm and kill other humans not just to protect ourselves physically, not just in pursuit […]