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Music of the Week
I found a Pinky-Winky video but could not inflict it on you. But the search turned up The Wonky Donkey, first in animated-video form . . .
. . . and then in Granny-reading form. Remember this?
So is this music? No.
Quote of the Week
We have to realize that the child’s world is without economic purpose. A child doesn’t understand – happy ignorance – that people are paid to do things. To a child the policeman rules the street for self-important majesty; the furnace man stokes the furnace because he loves the noise of falling coal and the fun of getting dirty; the grocer is held to his counter by the lure of aromatic spices and the joy of giving. And in this very ignorance there is a grain of truth. The child’s economic world may be the one that we are reaching out in vain to find. Here is a path in the wood of economics that some day might be followed to new discovery. Meantime, the children know it well and gather beside it their flowers of beautiful illusion.
Source: On the Front Line of Life by Stephen Leacock; in John Robson's Words Worth Noting
Posted: 2025 Nov 15
Tag Archives: Military
Waiting for It
Not a happy or comfortable place to stand. Just an important one. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Management and Work, Relationships and Behaviour, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Culture, Military
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Route Six Six
It’s almost enough to make you want to cut your hair. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Through History
Tagged Community, History, Military
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Coming Home
Because Red Green was right: We’re all in this together. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Relationships and Behaviour
Tagged Citizenship, Community, Military
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One Man One Kit
These are the good old days. Continue reading
The Boat that Won WWII
Another famous guy I’d never heard of. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Thinking Broadly, Through History
Tagged History, Military, Trains & Boats & Planes
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Blather — Cabinet Shuffle
Blather from the recent Cabinet shuffle. Continue reading
In Memory
Honour, if not glory. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Event Videos, Feeling Clearly, Photos of Built Stuff, Through History
Tagged Citizenship, History, Military
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Fort Jefferson Redux
Bricks and stones. Continue reading
Fort Jefferson, Garden Key FL
A peak into America’s push westward. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Through History
Tagged Buildings, History, Military
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