Randy | August 29, 2012
Ecology (noun) – The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. ~ Source: oxforddictionaries.com Building on what we talked about in last week’s article in this series, today will be about ecology, growth, and limits. “Ecology”, as you can see, is a wonderfully useful […]
Randy | August 26, 2012
I first mentioned the Maritime Hand Mowing Championships, hosted annually at the Ross Farm Living History Museum, last June in my article Musings of an Apprentice Mower. At the time I stated that Mrs. LFM and I would be attending what was then the 8th annual iteration of that splendid event, and soon after was […]
Randy | August 15, 2012
I’ve gotten more than a few good minds to thinking about the Way of the Wild, and some of the resulting correspondence has respectfully asked me when I was going to get into more practical aspects – most particularly, how I personally go about embracing and expressing the Way of the Wild in my own […]
Randy | August 12, 2012
There’s an old story set in the days when the fastest and cheapest method of long distance communication was the telegraph. Two men bought a race horse that was doing so well in a series of races that they found themselves with the necessity to enter it in a race that was half a continent […]
Randy | August 8, 2012
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut In my 18 July 2012 article, Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – The Way of the Wild, I said, in part: Every living thing in Nature, flora or fauna, has a Way that defines its ideal […]
Randy | August 1, 2012
Baltasar Gracián (8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and writer. A thorn in the side of his superiors for a number of reasons, not least for his propensity to publish his personal views without official permission, and once having read from the pulpit a letter he said he had just […]
Randy | July 25, 2012
We live and exist in an ocean of divine consciousness. The plants and trees partake in this consciousness and energy. When we travel the forests and fields, or canoe the lakes, rivers, and streams, we are surrounded by healing energies that nourish the body, mind, and spirit. When the medicine maker declares that we are […]
Randy | July 24, 2012
This past Saturday, Mrs. LFM and I attended and participated in the Kejimkujik Story Telling Festival at Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site. The event was also the venue for launch of the revised second edition of Mi’kmaq Medicines – Remedies and Recollections written by our esteemed Friend, and bottomlessly effervescent fount of ethnobotanical […]
Randy | July 18, 2012
“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 Every living thing in Nature, flora or fauna, has a Way that defines its ideal state of being. That balanced equation of form and function forged by generations […]
Randy | July 9, 2012
Mrs. LFM recently brought to my attention a job posting for a position, one of the primary duties of which was proof reading. The job posting contained two errors that proof reading should have corrected before the item went out for publication. An argument could be made that the errors weren’t corrected because they really, […]