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Paris – a tragedy of religion?
They are new and different enemies, these Paris shooters. Militarily trained, they are murderous religious zealots, with all the benefits of modern technology, the internet, and a vast but almost...
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Sam won’t have to face this winter…
I haven’t managed to shake my sadness, since I learned of Sam’s death — by drowning. I heard he left a note saying he’d had a good life. I could say ‘I’m not sure why I’m sad’ — but that would be a...
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Charlie Hebdo + Ideas…
I’m still thinking about the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. I tend to do that when I have conflicting feelings about something — unresolved internal issues. By the time we’re 14 or so, most of us have realized...
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Things that give us pause…
I haven’t posted here for so long that readers may have assumed I had quit. “Fearless” just couldn’t hack it! I confess to being distracted since January. On April 1st after a 15 year battle with...
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Summer Interruptus…
I know — I was supposed to be ‘getting back to normal’ after my brother’s death . And I had begun to scribble again, without being quite ready for prime time blogging. Then… Friday July 24 was a lovely...
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They ought to get out more!
“Hamilton police sickened by shocking conditions…” said the headline in the Toronto Star.* The story covered an inquest into the death of a developmentally delayed man. That police officers would be...
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Thinking about democracy & the dinner table
“This is what has to change,” my brain whispered to me one morning. I had wakened up remembering a dinner the night before, when ten of us managed to eat and drink too much for a whole evening without...
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A handy dandy “Climate Change Kit”
So what’s the big deal? The “Paris Summit” was about the world’s leaders trying to create a plan that would reduce climate change and move the world toward sustainability. With scientists and other...
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Racism, and you and I…
Yesterday — March 21st – was “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”.* I first began to pay attention to racism as an adolescent. At first, simple things: everyone knew people...
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Sexism lingers too…
Chatting in a café with friends, we traded comments on the predictable verdict in the Jian Gomeshi trial* – along with the eye-rolling you do when you know there’s nothing new to say. How sad is that?...
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