Randy | April 30, 2017
The way I was raised, “breakfast” was the meal usually eaten between rising from bed and the start of school, work, hunting, fishing, or any other endeavour. I say usually because breakfast could also be eaten after the start of an endeavour and during a pause in its execution if an early start was warranted […]
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Randy | April 22, 2017
Today’s title is taken from the vast body of sage advice that flows from the mind, pen, and lips of Hanshi Stephen F. Kaufman; a treasured Friend to whom I have referred here on many occasions, and will again. I invite you to peruse and reflect on these representative pieces from the LFM Archives that […]
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Randy | April 20, 2017
On Day 18 of last season’s Dark Sentiments, I spoke of Dan O’Brien, Esq., and his film project based on the legend of the Dagger Woods Howler, a still from which appears at the top of this piece. Dan found me through my previous writings on the subject, and has since done me the honour […]
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Randy | April 15, 2017
“Man has a large and highly adaptive brain – nearly as smart as a Crow – along with this pesky opposable thumb – one on each side unless you’ve gone through life being called “Lefty”. We Man critters can imagine and build solutions to problems that Nature didn’t give us the speed, wings, teeth, fur, […]
Category: A Call to Arms, About Beginnings, Abuse of Authority, Alpha and Omega, Bush, Blade, Birch, Bludgeon, and Boomstick, Business As Usual, Family Matters, Natural Selection, Poetry, Public Service Announcements, Reality Stranger than Fiction, The Way of the Wild, True Grit, Winter is Coming, Wisdom That's Stuck to my Soul |
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Randy | April 9, 2017
At 05:30 hours a century ago this very day, four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force launched an action that in four days accomplished an objective British and French forces had spent years and thousands of lives failing at. By 12 April 1917, the impregnable German stronghold of Vimy Ridge was in Allied hands. Before […]
Category: A Call to Arms, About Beginnings, Aviation, Bush, Blade, Birch, Bludgeon, and Boomstick, Family Matters, Lest We Forget, Public Service Announcements, Reality Stranger than Fiction, The Dark Side, True Grit |
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Randy | April 8, 2017
“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.” ~ Gregory Bateson – Steps to an Ecology of Mind I am not a psychologist but I do have a serviceable and ever growing garniture of knowledge, both formally and self-acquired, in the field of how Humans and […]
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Randy | April 2, 2017
Welcome, weary traveller, to this first chapter of The Goode Fyght. We live in a “polarized” world. All the talking heads say so. Any nitwit who’s ever changed the batteries in a remote control knows the dangers inherent in ignoring the rules of polarity, for one does so at peril of being forever cursed to […]
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