Randy | August 15, 2011
Nature is unpredictable. All Nature’s creatures are equipped to work with that fact, and it’s why we humans created such damnable things as religion and statistics. It’s also why, without looking like it, I have a tool and first aid kit either on my person or within reach 24/7 that includes a heavy duty multi-tool, […]
Randy | July 21, 2011
Recently Mrs. LFM and I rewatched the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers. While we love the story, the fact that, even this year, Hollywood is making yet another version has been causing me to finger the keen edge of my own blade with corrective measures in mind. A sporadic, though not uncommon, event. Ah […]
Randy | July 2, 2011
As you all know, yesterday was spent in Kejimkujik National Park. The expedition included Mrs. LFM, me, Robbie our Australian Paddle Dog, and Peter “Bear Bait” Thomson in his capacity as photographer (voyageur AND voyeur), drinking companion, and source of endless amusement in spite of himself. His shovelling … I mean paddling … style has […]
Randy | June 26, 2011
My father was the oldest of seven children, and he, along with every one of his siblings, suffered from heart disease and high blood pressure. My father was diagnosed with angina when he was 40, and by the time he was 55 ended up with a triple bypass that saved his life and at last […]
Randy | April 26, 2011
My birthday fell on this past Saturday and, as is traditional, Mrs. LFM and I went hiking. This year’s stomping grounds was Kejimkujik National Park, an incredible expanse of lakes, rivers, and forests that is of special significance to Mrs. LFM and me, and was the place in which the ceremonies spoken of in my […]
Randy | March 27, 2011
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~ John Muir The twenty-fourth […]
Diana | March 24, 2011
Seven years ago today, my father succumbed to the ravages of cancer. I think of him throughout the year, almost every day, but especially on the days of his birth and his death. My dad and I were always very close. He was understanding, encouraging, sympathetic, inspiring and above all, loving. He pushed me to […]
Randy | March 24, 2011
A stone monument makes a powerful statement, but it stays where it is so those of us to whom it matters must show our respect by going where it sits. That is a fact of necessity, but it doesn’t make a physical monument better than the ones built out of words and feelings. Over the […]
Randy | March 20, 2011
Yesterday’s article, Bullshit Alert – Since 11 March 2011, If You’ve Ever Even Heard of Japan, You’ve Been Exposed, introduced this and the article that follows, and explained my motivation for writing both. If you haven’t yet read my intro, please go and do so now before coming back here and moving forward. Media coverage […]
Randy | February 9, 2011
On the 9th day of February in the year 1982, a baby girl was born in the city of Wroclaw, Poland. She was one of many girls born that day, both in Poland and all over the world, but the birth of this one was special because the event marked kindling of a spark that […]