Category: politics

  As I scroll through the online groups I belong to, it is easy to become depressed at the state of the world right now. Can’t help but think about a half remembered poem ‘This is how the world ends – not with a bang but a whimper.’ The world seems to be falling apart…

  Ever danced?  Ever danced with someone who didn’t want to?  Or wasn’t very good at it?  Sometimes it is just ‘easier’ to walk away and find a new partner… Right now I see multiple people advising the ‘left’ to find a way to ‘work with’ the alt right.  Except, how do you manage to…

  I have very few photos of my dad.  This was one that mom had in a double frame – one with her at 16 years of age, this of dad in his Canadian army uniform, no doubt early in the war.  The smaller photo is of dad at age 10, around when his mother…

  I have very few photos of my dad.  This was one that mom had in a double frame – one with her at 16 years of age, this of dad in his Canadian army uniform, no doubt early in the war.  The smaller photo is of dad at age 10, around when his mother…

  I have very few photos of my dad.  This was one that mom had in a double frame – one with her at 16 years of age, this of dad in his Canadian army uniform, no doubt early in the war.  The smaller photo is of dad at age 10, around when his mother…

  I have very few photos of my dad.  This was one that mom had in a double frame – one with her at 16 years of age, this of dad in his Canadian army uniform, no doubt early in the war.  The smaller photo is of dad at age 10, around when his mother…

  Life, as we know it, is going to change.   How?  We don’t know – yet.   But we have been ‘warned’ what is about to become a priority in our lives, and what is not.  We will have to navigate our way through to some kind of coping and managing of the stress of the…

…or the law of unintended consequences. I am currently reading Adrienne Mayor’s Gods and Robots and it is illuminating.  She begins with the myth of Talos, a made being, not a born one.  It is a story I was not particularly familiar with although I knew of the Jason and the Argonauts tale.  To have…

After a few overcast and dreary days, today dawn brings us blue skies and a sun that is noticeably moving through it’s cycle back towards the north.  A few weeks ago, the sun was coming up in that gap further to the right, a couple of houses down the street. Politics has been much on…