An amazing friend of mine who is also an amazing photographer took this photo. When I look at it I am transported back in time to my childhood growing up in rural Canada. When I was a kid we knew the location and condition of every pond within a five mile radius of home. I […]
A few weeks back I promised a friend I would do some research into the unhealthy eating habits so prevalent in our culture with the consequent health issues that are epidemic these days in our part of the world, and rapidly spreading globally. Personally, I have made some conscientious efforts to eat healthy for most
Today is Groundhog Day and I’m hoping to watch one of my favourite movies – The 1993 cult classic, Groundhog Day! Over the years I have discovered that people’s opinions about it fall into two categories – either they love it or they hate it. When you find a really good movie it’s kind of
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. A number of years ago (2008 actually) I was privileged to spend some time in Israel and got to visit the Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Located on the Mount of Remembrance, Yad Vashem is a 45-acre campus with nine interactive galleries using personal items, testimonials, and documents
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A few weeks back (The Primacy of Reading) I shared this quote: “Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a
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How blessed (privileged) we are with the amount of excellent reading materials in our day. (I know that the loads of misinformation and disinformation coming down the pipe is a serious problem too, but there’s little inspiring about that!) My friend Jason loaned me his copy of a book he finished recently. I was somewhat
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You’ve got to love these little guys. Personally, I think they should be our national bird. Cute as all get out but tough as nails.
We’ve been living in a winter wonderland here the last few days. I post this photo (taken from my balcony) in my inspiration blog because beauty is most inspiring, isn’t it. I also came across this today: “The ideal outcome of an encounter with beauty through art is that one will want to become a
I recall a teacher many years ago saying something like, “If you can’t put it in words, you don’t understand it.” That’s an interesting thought to consider – the relationship between words and concepts (ideas) and our ability to understand. As well as our ability to communicate well. I remember being greatly challenged by his
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Today is the third Monday in January which has in recent years become known as ‘Blue Monday’. It’s supposed to be the saddest day of the year. They attribute it to several different things – less sunlight (‘seasonal affective disorder’), holidays hangover, resolution failures, the weather … But it may surprise you to know there