Category Archives: News

Secular Sunday – Cults

Got to see this Fringe Festival play in Saskatoon and it was pretty good!

Friday Fun Link – Ordinary Abundance

As always, there are threats, worries and stresses.  But we live in a magical time and I’d encourage you to click this link and read the whole list!

To My Fellow Americans: The Canadian Door Is Ajar

Not a lot but according to this essay, Canadians are open to going back to the way things were in terms of US relations.  BUT some *very* major changes need to happen.  (And honestly, I’m not even sure those changes would fix it – we’ve seen America with the mask off completely and it was […]

Wisdom Wednesday – We Are All Acting

  Marlon Brando once told Dick Cavett that everyone on Earth is an actor. Then he proved it, live on air, by dissecting Cavett himself. It remains one of the most disarming exchanges in talk show history. Cavett opened by pressing Brando on something he had read for years: that… pic.twitter.com/5X1m2HzmnU — History Nerd (@_HistoryNerd) […]

The City That Gets Its News From A Garbage Company

#1042 The City that Gets its News from a Dumpster Company

The Beautiful Delay: Why Soccer Still Grips The Smartphone-Trained Brain

This essay showed up on my FB timeline from some guy called John Gregory  I thought it was pretty insightful so am re-posting… After watching Portugal register just one shot on goal during the Portugal-DR Congo World Cup match the other day, I scratched my head over how soccer can be the world’s most popular […]

Secular Sunday – Happy Parents’ Day?

I didn’t post this on Mother’s Day so I’ll post it on Father’s Day instead – a woman sneaks into a right-wing mother’s group on FB and starts posting about ICE and children being separated from their families. https://www.threads.com/@theletsnotdate/post/DYLoyAnjU_m  

Friday Forlorn Link – Rest In Power, Bruce.

Not really a link and definitely not fun like my usual Friday Fun Link posts. But a friend posted the below on Facebook in reaction to the suicide of an Alberta man who was about to suffer from changes to that province’s disability support program. It hit me harder than it might have for a […]

Secular Sunday – Be Careful Who You Hate

Wisdom Wednesday – Moral Injury

Someone recently told me about the term “Moral Injury” which is similar to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and also comes out of studies of the military. But where PTSD is about something that damages a person’s loss of sense of personal safety after a traumatic event or series of events, Moral Injury can occur when […]