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April 20, 2025

It’s for these moments …

Some people think I miss the world by viewing it through my camera lens. I disagree. Rather, through my lens I become very intimate with the world. And I capture wonderful moments as in the photo below. Continue reading

Arts and Leisure

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August 20, 2021

Small house in a big world. The power of perspective.

I don’t know how old I was when I first heard I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very big world. But as one of my dad’s favourite quotes, I’ve known it as long as I can remember. Up until recently, I’ve attributed the quote to Thoreau. But Continue reading

Catch-All

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April 28, 2021

Thoughlets. XLIV.

Do you ever wonder what future generations will look like? Look in a mirror. You are the future generations of those who lived before you. And do you ever wonder what future future generations will think of you and your ilk? Well, since you are a future generation, and since, cf Hume, the future resembles Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Thoughtlets

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March 20, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. As Not To Be Weary of It. Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, pp 128-129 Continue reading

Pam-Toons

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September 28, 2020

Identity-angst is not just for teens.

Amid the angst and drama of the teen years is discovering one’s identity and where one fits in. But adults struggle with these issues, too. Some learn to just ‘fit in’. Some happily. Others feeling suffocated, wearing a mask, harbouring regrets. The mid-life crisis is a common phenomenon, as is a marital partner leaving to Continue reading

Catch-All

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September 24, 2020

Thoughtlets .xi.

If conditions on earth are optimal for human life — clean water, stable climate, no war, no famine, no plagues, no cancer and so on — of the 7.8 billion people alive today all but a handful of outliers will be dead in 100 years. And even those outliers won’t live more than a decade Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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October 15, 2019

It’s for these moments…

Some people think I miss the world by viewing it through my camera lens. I disagree. Rather, through my lens I become very intimate with the world. And I capture wonderful moments as in the photo below. Continue reading

Arts and Leisure

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