Monthly Archives: July 2012

Science fiction writers often reference a super race of enlightened ones whom somehow we lost touch with over time. Scientologists have their Thetans, Mormon their lost tribe, and Stargate fans just call them The Ancients.   But there are Ancients who are more available … Continue reading →

Relationships are always worth restoring. I never met anyone who found internal harmony by discarding relationships whenever there was a rift, a hurt or a conflict.  Interestingly a significant amount of all so called ‘spiritual literature’ is focused on teaching us how … Continue reading →

Uriah Heap is one of literature’s most obnoxoius characters. His very name makes one’s  skin crawl.  Desception, disloyalty, conspiracy, betrayal all cloaked in the   guise of his mother’s summons to submissive huimility.  If that is humility,  little wonder few  aspire … Continue reading →

It’s another one of those days on the calendar when one is supposed to pause, take note and celebrate. Part of me  prefers to ignore it, but I am forbidden. My number one son Jonathan came home from LA , … Continue reading →

Saturday, 03 December 2011 I think it was Samuel Johnson who wrote that few things in life surprised him, but there were some which astonished him. Being honest, I confess I read the quote in one of Conrad’s Black’s recent … Continue reading →

Friday, 05 August 2011 From Huron Ridge in Port Carling Ontario: I usually write when I am touched by something with which many of us can relate. Sometimes I write out of abundance of gratitude and joy to have been … Continue reading →

Sunday, 16 January 2011 I have long been fascinated by the wonderfully diverse and complex lives of the people I have encountered through the course of my pilgrimage of grace. I love to reflect on these lives still being lived, … Continue reading →

An ode of English plurals To all you lovers of language We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, … Continue reading →

Sunday, 28 November 2010 History helps us understand why we are who we are, and ours is a melange of the compliant and authoritarian nineteen fifties, with just a touch of the total social blow  out of the late sixties. … Continue reading →