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(Capt. Cook statue at Victoria harbour personifying Arnold’s quote) that he had come to understand, realize, and actualize what Matthew Arnold had said about a friend “who saw life steadily and saw it whole”. Took him that long to become … Continue reading →

All of us are culpable and morally involved, no matter how innocent we proclaim ourselves. Which is why our choices are important. There is great responsibility in choices. If slave or child labor is three links back in the chain … Continue reading →

true equality, fairness, honesty, common sense, and meritocracy, in particular, die hard deaths simultaneously. Many of the best people for whatever jobs and positions do not get the appropriate or best jobs and positions because of agenda politics. The Western world has … Continue reading →

Sure, I sang “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” in a 1967 Viet Nam war rally near Winnipeg’s Legislative grounds, and later got on the front lines of Calgary Trail waving placards to get school secretaries a higher wage on … Continue reading →

As for me, none. I’ve put whatever ‘genius’ I’ve had into my choices along the way and filling in whatever missing pieces long before “bucket-list” became a contemporary conventional catch-word. Sure, I’ll miss a lot of who and what I … Continue reading →

Reaffirming yet again that, Matthew Arnold-like, I remain, ever day, interested in the best that has been said, thought, written, and otherwise expressed by humans. That I also remain most interested in possibilities of the human/individual variety, for myself, for … Continue reading →

This is a remarkably strong production of Dickens’ autobiographical classic, published in 1849, which reminds one of many things about life. 1. The relevance of his topics goes on today in Third World and Western countries alike. Relevant still are … Continue reading →

-Life is not perfect. People are not perfect. There are many dualities (e.g. appearance and reality, good and evil, individual and society) built into life, individuals, and relationships. For this reason, there will be mixed feelings and conflicts in many … Continue reading →

(A bona-fide classic; MGM DVD) A simple decision for me, really, having stopped going to theatre movies of late. The line-ups, packed houses, rude behavior, noisy popcorn-chomping or chatter of nearby patrons that I don’t frankly miss. There are far better … Continue reading →

(tablecloth, main coffee bar in Radium, B.C.) “Language is our common denominator.” –William Hazlitt, Political Essays, 1819 “Language as an instrument both to shape and understand reality.” –Alberto Manguel, The City of Words “I have to protect myself from the … Continue reading →