Category Archives: war

Connect the Dots – thoughts on Silent Spring

Posted on February 17, 2013 by mcoltezo

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

Posted on January 12, 2013 by mcoltezo

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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Honouring them?

Posted on November 11, 2012 by mcoltezo

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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