Blogging has slowed down a bit, but I’m still here. The last hundred posts were dominated by my tour of churches, my local church involvement, cohousing, marathon training, boardgaming, beer tastings, political musings, travel and of course my family. Thanks for reading!!
The media response following the XL Foods in Brooks, AB shutdown over the last couple months has been a dominated by concerns to make food safer: more regulation, more measures to safeguard the quality of the meat. What is remarkable is the silence regarding the state of food production in Canada and the alarming trend … [Read more…]
I swore off American politics when Bush won his second term in Nov, 2004. This distaste was compounded by my reading Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival. Despite my earnest efforts to ignore the Nov, 2008 election, I was drawn in by Barak Obama’s charisma and the promise of a new era of U.S. foreign policy. Now, … [Read more…]
It is remarkable how much I get out. Usually I am not the initiator for outings. My friends are great for inviting me to go out and enjoy things. This past weekend was terrific for that. One of my adventures was sparked by Shane who invited me to cycle in the mountains. I hadn’t ridden … [Read more…]
This morning, actually, about 5 minutes ago, I read the last half of Stephen’s sermon in Acts 7 which concludes with his martyrdom. I teared up reading Then they put their hands over their ears, and drowning out his voice with their shouts, they rushed at him. They dragged him out of the city and … [Read more…]
As I updated my operating system on my iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, I was led to believe that my old copy of Final Cut Pro would not work as it was designed for PowerPC and not the new Intel processors (as it turns out, FCP still works). So, I had to decide … [Read more…]
Dragonfly Cohousing: We have a Development Permit from the City of Calg…: Our Permit request was granted today after several months of deliberations with City Hall and redesigns by NORR Architects. This marks a landmark in our process to build Alberta’s second cohousing development.
I was challenged a couple months ago to consider my regrets. Rather quickly several major regrets came to mind. Reflecting on my greatest regrettable actions I encounter a disturbing revelation: I have really regretted doing things that primarily made me look bad. Sadly, even when those regrets have involved hurting another person, the reason I … [Read more…]
“I am perfect just the way I am.” I read this in a little book called Power Thoughts by Louise L. Hay. Hay is an inspirational writer specializing in little quotes to help people deal with life. I think she’s dead wrong. I think she’s filling people’s heads with total nonsense. Why? Because we aren’t … [Read more…]
Last night we moved into a rental home in the community of Varsity in Calgary. It’s probably the easiest move I’ve done – lots of time to pack and load the truck, great help, and plenty of time to unpack. We are on a path to downsizing/simplifying – I’ll be blogging about that soon. Since … [Read more…]