Landschlacht, Switzerland, Saturday 2 May 2020 (Lockdown Day #47) Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet’s torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday 24 April 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful and most of the Irish republican leaders involved… Continue reading Canada Slim and the Secret Beauty
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Water Wars
Landschlacht, Switzerland, 6 December 2016 Why does the United States invade a country? Historically, wars are fought over scarce resources, with religion or politics as convenient excuses or triggers for the commencement of hostilities. So what does Canada possess in greater abundance than the United States? (Besides being the 2nd biggest country in the world… Continue reading Water Wars
Oil and Blood in the Heartland 2: Home and Native Land
Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Summer 1992 I embarrassed myself. West of Hamilton and surrounded for the most part by farmland, Brantford is known for several things: It lays claim to the invention of the telephone, the birthplace of “The Great One” hockey player Wayne Gretzky, entertainer Phil Hartman, Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris, and a… Continue reading Oil and Blood in the Heartland 2: Home and Native Land
Oil and Blood in the Heartland 1: Hope and Despair
Landschlacht, Switzerland, 8 November 2016 King Solomon of Israel (970 – 932 BC) once wrote about life on Earth in his day: “A generation goes and a generation comes… All things are full of weariness. A man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will… Continue reading Oil and Blood in the Heartland 1: Hope and Despair
An enlightened age?
Perhaps doing a double shift outside alone in the Starbucks Kiosk is not a good thing for me, because it leads me to thinking about things and the way perhaps they should or could be. I confess the older I get, the more confused I become. Now while some folks suggest that this is the… Continue reading An enlightened age?