Randy | March 8, 2026
Today we will be taking a brief trip on a related side road from our current “A Thin Veneer” series for some much needed scene setting. We’ll begin with this snippet that arose from the travails of recently defrocked Justice Minister for the Government of Nova Scotia, Becky Druhan: “She said they were told that […]
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Randy | December 24, 2025
My Esteemed Friend Jim Keating recently made a profound utterance in the matter of prevailing flaccid, and annually recurring, expressions of what’s branded to be in the “Spirit” of the “Season”, saying in part … “… How about songs, words, images which convey strength, power, confidence and faith in this time of Yule? Why not […]
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Randy | December 6, 2025
“In this age of divided loyalties and unending crisis, some cower. Some assert themselves from the perceived safety of throngs screaming a common slogan understood differently by each throat and hearing ear. Some look to a saviour. Still others understand that if there is a saviour, in the hour of need it’s going to have […]
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Randy | September 20, 2025
“Musashi quite wisely said, ‘Do nothing which is of no use,’ and with that in mind, I prefer a return to first principles — the safety of an enterprise MUST have no bearing on the worthiness of its pursuit. Only upon the manner of its execution. Even then, this will be governed on a sliding scale […]
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Randy | September 1, 2025
Further to our last gathering, I will today revisit some realities that I have trotted out before but will again today on the grounds that I, at least, want to hear them again. The closing of the Nova Scotia woods to all travel of any kind, and the official reasons for doing so, were spoken […]
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Randy | August 10, 2025
On 5 August 2025, the Government of Nova Scotia proclaimed: “… a restricted travel zone in any area of the woods upon which no person shall enter for the purpose of travelling, camping, fishing or picnicking, or any other purpose, without a valid travel permit issued by the Minister, a conservation officer or other person […]
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Randy | December 29, 2024
In thanks to all those who have noticed my absence of late and felt motivated either to take up arms in proclaiming their disquiet, or clutch them tight to suffer in silence, I offer this brief walk in yesterday’s woods and my promise that you will find yourselves back to being tired of me soon […]
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Randy | October 12, 2024
The elements of the picture at the top of tonight’s Dark Sentiment combine thoughts placed here seven years ago as Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 3: Of Mini-miracles, Odd Synchronicities, and Sublime Messages, and more recently in On the Weihnachtsjäger Trail. The feather gifted to me, and spoken of in the former, is the […]
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Randy | October 11, 2024
“Best day ever!” An all too common utterance from the mouths of the same subset of the Great Unwashed who seasonally prattle on about their “Resolution” for a new year, and the check boxes (most of them fated to remain unchecked) on their “bucket list”. Spoken as though the speaker is dead but refuses to […]
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Randy | July 25, 2024
This poem sprang spontaneously from the offering of a very tasty clutch of nuts proferred to my hand this morning by Mrs. LFM with the words, “I went shopping hungry.” The advice that follows is something we’ve all heard, even as some of us know better than to take it too far, if at all, […]
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