Randy | October 17, 2012
Growing up, I was always ahead of my contemporaries in my skills with the written and spoken word. To my great fortune, that gift was recognized and cultivated by a succession of exceptional Teachers. While I can’t pin down the date beyond the certainty that I was still in elementary school, I remember a day […]
Randy | October 12, 2012
Back in the last century … I’m talking WAY back ’round about the autumn of 1975 … I was studying alchemy and arguments for and against the Earth being round, along with staying one step ahead of the Inquisition, at Nova Scotia’s prestigious Dalhousie University. Costly and time consuming as it was, most of what […]
Randy | October 11, 2012
Murder by poison has a long dark history. For example, whether historically accurate or cooked up by rivals, the Borgia family name is indelibly stained with it. Poison is less used today for killing things that walk on two legs for reasons well presented by Esther Inglis-Arkell in her article The Deadliest Poisons in History […]
Randy | October 7, 2012
Of no surprise to my readers will be the disclosure that my brand of humour veers sharply toward the dark side. My dance card of funeral attendance over the years includes both my parents, four uncles and one aunt, an assortment of friends and the parents of others, and that’s just the humans. If memory […]
Randy | October 6, 2012
We first met Stella last year on Day 30. Her saga continues. Stella On Her Own By LFM It was a day in August when Young Stella got the word – “Report thee to thy dream job lass, The sooner is preferred.” The night before she moved away From home at twenty-one, Stella kissed her […]
Randy | October 5, 2012
On Day 23 of last year’s Dark Sentiments, we looked at issues surrounding the announced discovery of what might be the first known artifact to bear an inscription that refers to the Biblical Christ. Here at LFM, we enjoy a good mystery as much as the next bloke or blokette, and today we’re going to […]
Randy | October 3, 2012
“Everything in Nature is about efficiency and balance, which is why life is, first and foremost, an exercise in energy management. For example, the Way of the Wild demands of each parent that their offspring be made self-sufficient as quickly and efficiently as possible. A tool need not be a physical artifact – rest assured […]
Randy | October 1, 2012
October again, and the harvest is in, by every definition of the word. Welcome to another season of Dark Sentiments! If you’ve never experienced it before, “Dark Sentiments” is an annual series that appears here every October, each day of that month presenting observations and tales of people, things, doings, and goings on that come […]
Randy | September 26, 2012
“Man has a large and highly adaptive brain – nearly as smart as a Crow – along with this pesky opposable thumb – one on each side unless you’ve gone through life being called “Lefty”. We Man critters can imagine and build solutions to problems that Nature didn’t give us the speed, wings, teeth, fur, […]
Randy | September 19, 2012
Last week we talked about what Gandhi called “swadeshi“. If you haven’t read that article before this one, go do it now. We’ll wait. Gandhi proposed a veering away from the British model of centralized control of resources and industrialized production power in favour of localized, self-sufficient community based government and production of necessary commodities […]