Ever since humans first climbed out of the caves and headed into the world at large, there has been a part of our psyche that has depended upon knowing what lies ahead. After all, if we come around the corner and end up face to face with some huge beast that is wild and unfriendly, […]
A Long Time Ago
“There is no such thing as ‘a long time ago’. There are only memories that mean something and memories that don’t.” Sylvester Stallone – This Is Us Isn’t it interesting how a memory can pop up and suddenly we are right back where we experienced that “thing” in the first place? Many studies on memory […]
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 […]
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