Randy | March 3, 2013
A fire breaks out in your kitchen. You have and are permitted to own a fire extinguisher that is more than adequate to stop the blaze, but prohibited from using it in favour of running away to let the Fire Department handle the situation. An hour later, your house is rubble, and both your wheel […]
Randy | March 2, 2013
I’m in the throes of putting together a new Self Reliance Course series, and as usual, the Daemon that lives in my head pooped … I mean popped … out a poem. Behold … Ode to a Home Invasion By LFM My door was locked. You didn’t care. You kicked it from the frame. The […]
Randy | February 21, 2013
By now it should be well known that I hold Crows and Ravens in the highest regard. They’ve inspired me more than a few times, and hold every promise, as with any Esteemed Friend, of continuing to do so. I have stood enthralled in the teeth of gale force winds, watching Crows swoop, spin, tuck […]
Randy | February 20, 2013
The search for the 13.5 meter (44 foot) fishing boat Miss Ally and her crew of five young Nova Scotia fishermen began last Sunday night when the Rescue Coordination Centre began receiving signals from the vessel’s emergency locator beacon (ELB). Designed to activate on immersion in salt water, the ELB signals from Miss Ally showed […]
Randy | February 13, 2013
In last week’s edition of Worldly Wisdom Wednesday, I spoke of the The True Arte of Intelligent Discourse, and identified it as but a subset of the larger Discipline called Manners. Moving forward from there, let’s dig a little deeper. Why are Manners important? Because they garner approval from society, as well as from individual […]
Randy | February 9, 2013
Last year I published a poem here in celebration of Mrs. LFM’s birthday. Today we celebrate another, and if you’ve read what I put here yesterday, you’ll know this to be an unusually special one. Today as a blizzard swirls around us, I’m building on the foundation of last year with two more verses dedicated […]
Randy | February 8, 2013
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of an event for which I will be forever thankful to the Universe – the birth of my Beloved Diana, half a world away in Poland. Nearly a year ago, I commemorated her birthday with a poem. One of many she’s inspired, and will come to inspire. Yet this year of […]
Randy | February 6, 2013
She taught me the art of conversation. How to listen, and how to appropriately respond. She taught me of social rank, and how one must be deserving of it. Of discretion in all things. I learned the importance of a cup of tea, and that it must never be refused if matters of any size […]
Randy | January 30, 2013
Speak the word “education” and the most common image conjured is that of a set of knowledge and skills conveyed under the auspices, and bearing the stamp of approval, of some official grantor of credentials. People seek to learn by enrolling in classes so they can emerge bearing a certificate or diploma they can display […]
Randy | January 28, 2013
The title of this item is an English translation of an Arab proverb that has always been one of my favourites. It packs a lot of realism into a very small package. It was called to mind by reading a thread on a bushcraft forum I visit periodically in which the original poster asked how […]