perspective

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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June 26, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Pursuant to Its Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, the University Students’ Union Welcomes the Neo-Knotsies Macrame Revival Club.

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Pam-Toons, Social and Political Commentary

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January 27, 2021

Thoughlets. xxxv.

People who hate each other can and do manage to live together peaceably. Brewing neighbours walk past each other for thirty years. Colleagues just accept that each other are idiots. Most misogynists are not raping and shooting women. And a bigot is likely to shed his coat for a freezing child, no matter the colour Continue reading

Thoughtlets

civility, curious, hate, peace, perspective, political, social, violence
January 26, 2021

Thoughtlets. xxxiii.

Don’t be deterred from searching a well-trodden path for novel things. Hard packed ground can conceal many treasures. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

academic, courage, curiousity, foto, ideas, intellectual, new, novel, old, perspective, photo, problem solving
October 31, 2020

Thoughtlets .xxv.

If you like something a political speaker has said or the way she’s said it, ask yourself who her target audience is and whether you are a member. If so, remember the politician is soliciting your vote. It would not go amiss to slow down and inspect her wares for incorrigible defects, a most difficult Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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October 29, 2020

Thoughtlets .xxii.

Look below a grand narrative, e.g. left vs right, dark vs light, and you will discover people doing the best they can with the circumstances in which they find themselves. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

grand narrative, humility, myopia, perspective, Philosophy, political, social, standpoint, standpoint epistemology
September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets .vii.

Here’s some advice that’s helped me get through life: 1) Life isn’t fair and, 2) You won’t like everyone and not everyone will like you. I doubt I could share this advice with people engaged in and enraged by contemporary social movements. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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June 27, 2020

Fist Pumping.

I’ve here in mind the fist-pumping variety of politically vocal people, those certain that one side is leading us to another dark ages and the other to a totalitarian state. It appears that for some “left and right” thinking is characterized by black and white thinking. Nuance is lost. And with this loss, so too Continue reading

Political Rhetoric

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