Jul 21, 20216 min read
I'LL GIVE YOU TEN REASONS
As I’ve said all pandemic, I’m in support of very strict, even unpleasant, public health measures for combating COVID. But such measures...
Apr 29, 202111 min read
NO SENSE OF PLACE or HOW TO ERASE HISTORY AND CULTURE
In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...
Apr 18, 20215 min read
THESIS - CHAPTER FIVE - CONCLUSION
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on – in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world… Life is both dreadful and...
Mar 15, 202125 min read
THESIS - CHAPTER FOUR - A META-REFLECTION
“The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know” – James Baldwin, man who can tell you how long the...
Feb 5, 202165 min read
THESIS - CHAPTER THREE - A REINTRODUCTION
“Life without playing music is inconceivable for me… I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in...
Jan 3, 20214 min read
SPECIES [NOT] AT RISK
Somehow polar bears became the symbol of climate change and species extinction. It makes some sense how this creature arrived at it...
Dec 29, 202014 min read
WILL WE EVER HAVE A COVID VACCINE?
I’ve had nearly every common and exotic shot and oral immunization available. In my youth I was given all the typical ones nearly every...
Dec 14, 202015 min read
THESIS - CHAPTER TWO - AN INTRODUCTION TO DESCARTES
“It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament” – Pema Chödrön, one who knows the wisdom of no escape (Chödrön,...
Nov 19, 20202 min read
VANCOUVER HOMELESSNESS COUNT
Total: 2005: 1,364 (Sheltered 773, Unsheltered 59) 2010: 1,715 (Sheltered 1,294, Unsheltered 421) 2015: 1,746 (Sheltered 1,258,...
Nov 9, 202022 min read
THESIS - CHAPTER ONE - ENVIRONMENT and EDUCATION
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed” – Carl Sagan,...