Monthly Archives: November 2017

“The simplest things give me ideas.” (first grandson and stacking cups) (evening; canoes at Jasper Park Lodge) (illuminated Xmas decoration reflected eerily in patio window) (box ride for grandson 1) (tea service at Emily Carr’s house, Vancouver) (the symbolism of … Continue reading →

(Morley in 1960–a well-known popular Canadian author) Morley Callaghan, famous Canadian short story writer and novelist of the 1920s to 2000. The man who knew and famously knocked out Ernest Hemingway in a boxing match mistimed by F. Scott Fitzgerald. … Continue reading →

Otherwise, wrong messages and miscommunication become acceptable by the masses. Today: Edmonton Journal and CTV News calling a motorized wheelchair a scooter. Conjures up quite a different picture and scenario, eh? Especially when that motorized wheelchair got hit by a … Continue reading →

Empathy or identification with something, someone. To empathize with the other is to acquire vital or significant information, often knowledge. If one wants to know someone or something, one has to have the imaginative capacity of empathy. But no empathy … Continue reading →

That perception (and fuller consciousness) are dependent on empathy. That we actually only perceive, acquire information about or know someone or something via degrees of empathy–by identifying with the object, person, or process–by putting ourselves into it/him/her, and allowing our … Continue reading →

“We fear the thing we want the most.”–Dr. Robert Anthony “Fear is the prison of the heart.”–Anon “Of all the passions, fear weakens judgement most.”–Cardinal De Retz There is no greater self-imposed limitation than fear itself. Fear limits us from … Continue reading →

He was a light they had wanted to be close to, even briefly in passing. A certain remoteness and glow they had hoped to ‘reel in’ like some precious catch. In those ephemeral seconds they had, indeed, connected or seen … Continue reading →

(Risk as exemplified in Snakes and Ladders) Well, ain’t that the truth, from birth to death. Think of how vulnerable to injury or death babies and preschoolers are. Ponder the risks built into one’s day, whether this be stepping off … Continue reading →

I sought for The Key for many years, and finally found it at Ellerslie Gift and Garden! It now hangs on the wall outside my room so I see it a number of times each day and am reminded of … Continue reading →

Samples– Emily Dickinson: (from 1890–early publication–Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by friends Todd and Higginson) THE CHARIOT. XXVI Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. (from The … Continue reading →