How does this work out?
By Don / Date: September 17th, 2020
If you are reading this on facebook, it just goes to show that Irony is not dead. If you are reading it from a right-wing libertarian perspective, then perhaps things are not as bad as I make out. Let me know. Last week I listened to Elon Musk talking about AI. He makes the same […]
The High Priest
By Don / Date: September 11th, 2020
(For Leslie George – a man who knew…) His father knew books, numbers, reports and words. So many words. Not enough poetry. His uncle knew the world with his hands and a precise eye. He did not know that at the time. He did not know how deep into the arcane his uncle had grown […]
Resignation and Acceptance
By Don / Date: August 20th, 2020
If a way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst Thomas Hardy There are two concepts that are, I think, regularly confused; resignation and acceptance. “That is just how it is”, “That is the way things work”, “Just get used to it”. All of these phrases seem to be […]
On Mission?
By Don / Date: April 19th, 2020
In memory of James G. Butler. A Man who Knew. Do you know why you are here? What you are here to do? How the world will change because you have trodden on it? This lifetime? Now? Do you know why you are here? What you are here to do? How the world will change […]
Connections, compartments, blind-spots and a Pandemic
By Don / Date: March 24th, 2020
Sickness and Death are base fears for us Humans. One of the oldest professions is that of the Physician. In time of need – physical incapacity and fear for our own mortality, those who offer solutions and support are in high demand and are venerated. Now is such a time and so to the Nurses, […]
Consequence Time
By Don / Date: February 16th, 2020
Firstly – I speak only for myself. Secondly – yes, I was at the Ferry blockade, and at the legislature blockade. I was only in passing at the Ministry of ‘Fracking and Status Quo’ occupation, however a good friend of mine took a hit for the cause. Thirdly – I woke this morning to hear […]
LNG a Transition Fuel? Nope – a distraction…
By Don / Date: January 10th, 2020
Here in BC, First Nations are in the forefront of action against a Gas pipeline (Coastal Gas Link) being built across their unceeded territories, without their consent – supported by the force of a BC Supreme Court injunction and the action of the RCMP. The UN has come out against this – and this is […]
But it is not enough…
By Don / Date: October 8th, 2019
Yesterday I stood on a bridge. With others. With a sign. The sign said that since I was three years old, 60% of the animals on this planet have been wiped out – and the pace is accelerating. In a moment at the microphone I spoke my heart to the crowd. My emotions hit as […]
There is no magic bullet. There is a secret sauce…
By Don / Date: August 15th, 2019
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a single thing that, if you knew what it was, and if you did it, it would change everything for the better? Imagine doing that one thing and getting the life that you want, or changing that aspect of your life that is not working for you into […]
Living and Grieving
By Don / Date: May 10th, 2019
To live completely in a new moment, you must let go of the last Otherwise there is no space to live it The moment is wrenched from you as the clock ticks, the heart beats, the breath moves… We can cling to it; unwilling to let go of it. Through Love or Hate we attach […]