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Yesterday, my 3-year-old grandson playing tambourine and dancing while my wife (dragooned by him into co-performance) played egg-shaker and I played guitar with the drum machine singing “Oh What a Crying Shame” by The Mavericks. A permanent sublime moment of … Continue reading →

emergency sirens, Edmonton potholes, AB PC assault on the public, business takeover (and subsequent loss of jobs), Maritimes blizzard, e-mail phishing attachment, major oil spill, and freight train derailment.

Context is usually important, relevant to language situations. Conventions can be stretchable depending on purpose, meaning and, context. Precision in language use makes a big difference; it can mean the difference between life and death, success and failure, connection and … Continue reading →

Poverty often leads to theft.

“I fear one day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

“Civilization is an exercise in self-restraint.”–W.B. Yeats

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values.”– W.R. Inge “The proper study of mankind is books.”–Aldous Huxley

“Most of one’s life is a prolonged effort to avoid thinking.”–Aldous Huxley

“I have to protect myself from the toxicity of this culture.”–Kate Braverman

“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.” Mother Teresa ………………………………………. I’ve often said we need to fill up, load up, refresh, restore ourselves and to look out for/look after ourselves ’cause if we don’t….