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Tag Archives: Attitudes
Who Wrote That?
A brief presentation at a church meeting almost 30 years ago makes me think about what others expect from me. Continue reading
Poor Mike
A surprising look at Mike Weir – well, surprising for me. Continue reading
The Opposite of Familiarity
This morning I set off on a familiar walk, but with an unfamiliar task: participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count (whose rather loosey goosey rules allow said count to be done anywhere). Two miles in, I had seen the … Continue reading
The Poetry of Insomnia
And now for something mostly different: a mid-week post. As I reconfigure my other website/blog, I am going back through its posts and linking them better to the topic now at hand: advice for doing RFP responses (the better to … Continue reading
Not Yet 60
The mid-afternoon autumnal light slanting across the parking lot warms the day and lifts my heart, an involuntary response to something in the quality of the light. The air has a crispness we don’t get in the heat of summer. … Continue reading
But Fear Itself
Shh-gurgle-shh-gurgle-shh-gurgle-shh. Notwithstanding a certain rhythm, the sound of running water is not music to my ears. Continue reading
Life Is
Life is a bucket brigade: Don’t slop the bucket when it’s your turn. What’s that you say? You’ve never heard that metaphor for life before? You wonder if I made it up? Well, OK. I understand your skepticism. What else? … Continue reading
Is That the Best You Can Do?
Netflix traffic accounted for 34% of North America’s downloads during the busiest hours of the day this year. Drew Fitzgerald, Wall Street Journal, 2014 May 14 Maybe you already knew that Netflix accounts for one-third of internet downloads. But maybe … Continue reading
Sayin’ Somethin’ Stupid
An encounter with a gracious Glaswegian and a comment remembered from a decades-old sexual assault case in Edmonton come together to remind me that I can always choose how I respond, both to silly comments and to egregiously offensive ones. … Continue reading
