Here, There and Everywhere!!!
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Something old - something new
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
I should do this more often...
This is the only space that I can do whatever I want...when I want to...and no one can tell me to do it differently. Or that I should have bigger pictures or use smaller words.
I just get to be here...in this little piece of cyber-space...and if anyone were to drop by, stumble across or otherwise find themselves here for a moment...that's OK too.
I've been up to a lot of stuff...but no real reason not to be here, except maybe playing those time-sucking, mortifying, mind-numbing Zynga games.
So, while I don't have a lot to say I think this is a great place to say it - the end.
JK! This is only the end of my lack-of-motivation-2012 version! LOL!
Monday, February 20, 2012
So, it's been a while!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
My first time...
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Back where I started
That's it folks...have a good night!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Bullies make me sick!
- don't equate today's bullying to anything we might have experienced...it's seems to be nastier and thanks to technology can go 'viral' really quickly.
- go to the source of the problem (school, sports team, whatever) and insist on a meeting with the bully's parents.
- if the kid has any hint of self-esteem issue, get the kid help...if it's a shrink it's a shrink, if it's karate classes -- that's cool too.
I hope the kid in this instance is doing OK and getting lots of reassurance that this is NOT his/her doing. I know Ms Beautiful is a loving and nurturing person and I that will go a long way.
ps - that's a pigeon not a dove...but it was the closest I could come up with ...
Saturday, May 7, 2011
No man is an island
This past week NEWS yielded some of the most spectacularly improbable headlines any could have anticipated:
- Canadian Election results in the NDP forming the Official Opposition
- Osama bin Ladin killed by US Navy Seals
- Tornadoes in the US
- Flooding in Canada
These stories kept the media types busy, but at least it was 'real' news and not yet another non-story about Charlie Sheen "winning" or Lindsay Lohan getting arrested again! The list, as usual, goes on and on, but there were a few others that didn't have the talking heads as busy:
- Canada commemorates the Battle of the Atlantic
- Oldest combat veteran from WWI dies
A few years ago I was reminded of a mediation that was written by a man named John Donne. Mr Donne published Meditation No. 17 in 1624 as part of book called "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions". I read and reflect on this meditation as part of how I remember those who serve...and have served. So maybe on this eve of Mother's Day, and in my round about way...this is how I can remember my mom.
Mom never wore a uniform, but she served none-the-less by working throughout WWII for Canadian National Rail in Halifax Nova Scotia. She worked arranging trains to drop off troops and supplies at the ships and made sure there were trains to greet the ships that were coming back with the sick, wounded and returning troops.
Whenever I read Meditation No. 17, I can hear my mother reciting it from memory. She could do that ... recite things that she had learned as a school girl. This is a shortened version, but the whole meditation is very short and well worth a few moments:
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."