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Photo Memory of the Week
Also not a finch. Or a canary.
Music of the Week
Quote of the Week
“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
Source: Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Posted: 2025 Nov 28And check out this post for more of Richard Feynman's world view.
Category Archives: Musings
Who Shops Here, Anyway?
Why are these stores still here? Continue reading
Sum-up Saturday
Get out that scorecard. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Relationships and Behaviour
Tagged Attitudes, Community, Family
11 Comments
Remember When? No.
The things we just, you know, know. Who knows how? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, New Perspectives, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Critical Thinking, Culture, Miscellany
16 Comments
Say Wut
A plea for a reinstatement, not a request for a repeat. Continue reading
Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently
Tagged Conversations, Culture, Word Play
10 Comments
Random Juxtapositions
Don’t give up now. Continue reading
It’s Official
I have become my mother. Continue reading
Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently
Tagged Aging, History, Word Play
18 Comments
My Whole Life
I am a one-kid illustration for glump. glump: to look glum: FROWN Sitting at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the half of our storey-and-a-half house in Edmonton, my head hangs, my shoulders slump. Can you blame … Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently, Mortality, New Perspectives
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Family
8 Comments
A Simple Rule
Can we knock this off? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Through the Calendar
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Miscellany
10 Comments
And Now This
Dispatches from the road … Continue reading