Randy | December 16, 2012
If your anger goes forth, withhold your sword; If your sword goes forth, withhold your anger. ~ swordsman’s axiom Last week’s tragic attacks on school children in the United States and China have been met with the predictable media frenzy and polarized posturing on both sides of the gun control demarcation line. It happens every […]
Randy | December 12, 2012
The words “lost knowledge” conjure imaginings of arcane wisdom once known in antiquity, but that has disappeared from the ken of Man leaving the world a lesser place. Regrettably, this is not the case because, more often than not, knowledge isn’t so much lost as misplaced, and each year more time is spent by researchers […]
Randy | December 10, 2012
This morning on the CBC News website I found an article with the title Cole Harbour child recovering after pit bull bite. Lest it gets the usual, all too common, retroactive CBC editorial treatment, I’ll supplement the direct link just provided by quoting the article in its entirety, as it appeared this morning: A four-year-old […]
Randy | December 5, 2012
The strongest emotion I remember from every one of those trips was the overpowering sense of freedom that came over me the moment I felt my canoe leave the shore at the start. At that instant, nothing back in the so called “civilized” world mattered. Only the real things mattered, and if you’ve ever experienced […]
Randy | November 28, 2012
If you want to be a musician, but the only time you play your instrument, or even think about it, is during your half-hour weekly lesson, you’ll never become a musician. You have to think about it all the time. Eat it, breathe it, dream it. You practice constantly, even when you have no instrument […]
Randy | November 21, 2012
Early in the present century, while Mrs. LFM was finishing her last year of University, we rented an apartment in Halifax near the Dalhousie campus. In the neighbourhood lived a woman who was regularly encountered walking her Dog, off lead, on sidewalks that lay adjacent to busy city streets. The Dog never strayed from being […]
Randy | November 17, 2012
A hot woman who is also competent in the use of weapons is a mainstay in cinema, and yet when those skills are taken out of the realm of art and inserted into life, it’s often seen as remarkable – even bizarre – by the same people who thought it so wonderful in the movie […]
Randy | November 11, 2012
When evil stalks upon the land, I’ll nyther hold nor stay me’ hand, But fight to win a better day, Over the hills and far away. ~ Over the Hills and Far Away, John Tams arrangement ~ At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, in a railway car […]
Randy | November 1, 2012
As part of my professional life, I spent 17 years operating and working in the emergency services dispatch centre in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. I designed it, set it up, wrote the policies and procedures manual, personally selected and trained every person who ever worked there, and by the time I was finally able to get […]
Randy | October 26, 2012
If you’ve ever considered suicide, or ever knew someone who has done it, know that this is not to trivialize. I have a lot more to say on this subject, but this is not the day. Suicide By LFM It’s said that one who kills himself Just takes the coward’s way. I’ll grant this Truth […]