My Definition of “Mistake” Differs

| June 26, 2014

To begin, I offer this summary from an article posted Wednesday by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: A Lunenburg man has been fined $5,000 and is prohibited from owning animals for 10 years after his Portuguese water dog died when he left it inside his car in Wolfville during a hot day last summer … … […]

Growing Your Own

| June 23, 2014

I have gone on record here many times as having a propensity to fuck with people, particularly when it comes to the Lore of the Great White North. Here is yet another example. I once had cause to drive with a passenger from Miami, Florida to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. You may recall that I have […]

Fallout From a Tragedy

| June 8, 2014

For the information of anyone who has somehow missed the news of the tragic events that played out this past week in Moncton, New Brunswick, I’m going to recap here. For a complete time line of events as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), see here. On the evening of Wednesday, 4 June 2014, […]

Musings on Mindfulness

| June 1, 2014

Spirit Messengers. The term conjures images of animals sent by a higher power to offer guidance toward the right Path. A Google search will turn up reams of pages identifying the characteristics of each creature, along with its “meaning” should it choose to make itself seen to you under a variety of circumstances. As with […]

Let’s Tie Up Some Not So Loose Threads – Part 2 of 2

| May 25, 2014

I personally espouse and teach what I hold to be the necessity of being as self-sufficient and savvy as one can possibly be in seeing to the welfare of you and yours. I believe in community and lending a hand in defense of those who can’t help themselves, and in knowing how to recognize evil […]

More Rusty Cage

| May 16, 2014

Here’s a little entertainment to give you a send through the rest of this Friday. Whatever your flavour of spiritual philosophy that explains your place in the Universe, assuming you have any such thing, this uplifting little ditty by Rusty Cage (“Where the occult meets folk.”) offers a toe tapping go it alone approach that’s […]

RAF 303 Polish Fighter Squadron

| May 3, 2014

Bloody Foreigners is the name of a four part series that aired on British television beginning in 2010. It tells the story of how pivotal events in British history were brought to a successful conclusion in no small part through the efforts of non-British people. The series title alone spoke to me because I am […]

That Reminds Me of a Story

| May 2, 2014

For reasons that don’t relate to anything I can remember dreaming about last night, I woke up with a particular song in my head that we’ll get to in a moment. Like most things in my life, it reminded me of a story from personal experience. In this case it’s one that, as in the […]

Let’s Tie Up Some Not So Loose Threads – Part 1 of 2

| April 27, 2014

Early on the morning of Wednesday, 23 October 2013, the remains of 62 year old Harley Lawrence were discovered inside a burning bus shelter in Berwick, Nova Scotia; a small town located in the primarily agricultural Annapolis Valley. Harley Lawrence was its only homeless resident, sleeping nightly in the town’s sole bus shelter. Emotionally troubled, […]

If You’re Going to Play, Play. Don’t Play.

| April 22, 2014

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 […]