Category Archives: Culture

Building Momentum

Perhaps you’ve noticed that just about any way you turn, some cause could use a little help.  Some of the issues are local and some of them are far away but could definitely affect the local (international treaties or a … Continue reading

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Connect the Dots – thoughts on Silent Spring

I have just finished reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a book she wrote 50 years ago.  While I have already shared a few thoughts about the book from when I was just part way through it, my response to finishing … Continue reading

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Increasingly Silent Spring

Who hasn’t had good intentions about reading a book that is just sitting on their shelf?  I have many such books.  But the time came to finally pick up one of them in particular.  In beginning to read it, I … Continue reading

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Gifts Not Garbage

As we head into the gift giving season that it is for so many, I wonder how many people will give things that will last for any length of time.  In The Story of Stuff Annie Leonard tells us that … Continue reading

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Honouring them?

It has been my honour to have played the Last Post dozens of times for fallen soldiers and veterans: at cenotaphs on Remembrance Day, at graveyards and in churches for funerals and on parade for other honouring ceremonies.  Lest we … Continue reading

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Getting Around

How do you get around on the paths between buildings?  Most of the paths are concrete and in Western culture, gas vehicles are the dominant presence on our paths.  Walking is secondary.  In fact, everything else is secondary. Increasingly I … Continue reading

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When Global Takes Over Your Local

Driving by Zellers the other day I saw their store closing sign.  It made me sad.  In Thunder Bay we had three Zellers stores.  They’ve been bought out or sold or traded or whatever it is that happens in the … Continue reading

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Dangerous Disposable Devices

I’ve just come back from a half hour walk and I found yet again some items that would seem harmless to humans but can have deadly consequences for animals or birds.  This post is a highly practical one.  We’re heading … Continue reading

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Grocery Store Oddities

It was recently uttered by a big food store CEO that farmer’s markets could threaten our health.  In his words “…one day they’re going to kill some people though.”  This caused outrage and rightly so.  How better to know the … Continue reading

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Reflections on Time

I saw this fun reflection and wanted to share it with a friend so I grabbed my new mp3 player with built-in camera, snapped a photo, plugged the device into the computer, transferred the photo, attached it to an email … Continue reading

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