Randy | December 21, 2012
Beginning today and running up to include New Year’s Eve, this will be the first in an eleven part series of articles in which I will make personal observations on the season of Yule as I have come, and am still coming, to know it. With those words a year ago, I ended my […]
Randy | December 19, 2012
I ask why the definition of a good dog is often, “You can do anything to him.” That wouldn’t make any sense if phrased in terms of other relationships: “I have a really good wife. You can do anything to her.” Creepy! ~ Madeline Clark Gabriel The quotation above came from an excellent article titled […]
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 | December 5, 2012
Here’s a thrilling little ditty that’s as unsafe for work as you can get at this hour of the day. Yes, writers are sexy. You’ve seen my Wife – I’m living proof! That’s why writers write – because we can’t contain all the sexy, even during sex! Here’s Rachel Bloom in the official music video […]
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 14, 2012
Unless you embrace a system of belief that has convinced you otherwise, you will know, or at least suspect, that human existence is made up of three critical components – Mind, Body, and Spirit. Spirit is not the same as soul. I learned this long ago from Dogs, and other fellow creatures that were not […]
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 7, 2012
Earlier this year, on the subject of The Book of Five Rings – The Definitive Interpretation of Musashi’s Classic Book by Stephen F. Kaufman, I wrote – Musashi was perhaps the greatest swordsman who ever lived, and yet it would be a mistake to approach the Book of Five Rings as a guide to learning […]