As I walk…
This week in bible study the minister posed the following question: What would your response be if the authorities suddenly made an arbitrary decision to limit a freedom you enjoyed? For example, if suddenly the government announced the closure of your hospital and changed its status to a health...
“Spring Fever”
the old man in the hat A Saint John businessman recently ran afoul of the authorities while committing a public crime so horrendous that I shudder to repeat it here. He took his own gravel, his own equipment and his own time to perpetuate this monstrous affront to civil...
“Kids These Days!”
Linda Nicholas I had an extended conversation with a friend the other day, and then covered the same topic in a visit with another friend the next day. The topic was ‘young people’. Like every generation before us we expressed disgust and horror, and a certainty that they may...
Don’t Fence Me In!
Different people with different viewpoints see spirituality in different ways. To some, everything has its own ipseity (individual identity) that transfuses to its own orenda (inherent spiritual force), sometimes sincere and sometimes as insincere as ormolu! Reminds me where I read about “secular culture redefining morality”. It always has!!!...
No Notable Nuggets!
There are/will be times when one is simply faced with a shortage along the lines of “facetious nonce words” or “face-saving nonsense words”! Such was the situation when she of the lardaceous rear, which shape reminded me of lautenclavicymbals and/or something right off of the Pribilof Islands, suggested shrilly...
Momma always said to wear clean underwear
the old man in the hat Mother’s Day in our part of the woods always seems so appropriate with our surroundings springing to new life and new sounds. The budding of the trees, tulips pushing up through dark earth and the cacophony of returning songbirds announcing spring’s arrival. New...
You Do The Math!
I’ve read that Bobby Orr waited 35 years after his final NHL game to write a hockey book! So, that game was in 1978. You do the math! hockey changes – Cherry hasn’t. He’s still living in a corner (No pun intended!) back in the 70’s Boston/Orr era. Don...
Food for Thought…
Linda Nicholas Due to yet another challenging personal encounter this morning I got thinking about the reason people will go to such frustrating lengths to avoid admitting that they do not know something. I have heard it said they are the three hardest words to say. Only once has...
As I walk………..
A Laypersons Journey to Understanding We live in an interesting era. Over the last fifty years there has been a diminishment in the role of the traditional church in the lives of everyday people. By church, I simply refer to the very hierarchal, top down, organizational structure of many...
de·moc·ra·cy de·mocK·ra·cy
the old man in the hat Democracy is a tricky thing. Our particular version, even more so, as a representative democracy, carried out in the style of a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. So…..We, The People, do not directly control the action. We elect others to act on our behalf....