There’s some irony that Warner Brothers Music Group won’t allow me to embed this anti-corporate sponsorship song on my blog.
But worth a click-thru to watch a classic Neil Young song…
“This Note’s For You” – Neil Young
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Secular Sunday – Argument From Poor Design
There’s a lot of reasons to not believe in God but the “Argument From Poor Design” – basically a list of reasons a perfect creator still put a bunch of useless/poorly designed parts into human beings and other animals is one of my favourites.
Saturday Snap – Life’s Too Short For Unsalted Butter
In light of yesterday’s post where I happened to share the screenshot a portion of a life advice article that said we should eat salted butter as life is too short for unsalted, I thought I’d post a pic I happened to snap at Safeway recently.
Saying “life is too short for unsalted butter” may seem trite but it’s also very true.
Life is too short for a lot of things – enjoying food, enjoying travel, enjoying family, enjoying friends, enjoying the billion-to-one odds that we are alive in the first place.
So today, as I find myself thinking of a recently deceased colleague, taken long before her time, I’m also thinking about how suddenly a person’s life can change – sudden illness, lingering illness, accident, etc.
I’m also thinking about how important it is to buy the salted butter – both literally and metaphorically. And I’m glad that after snapping this pic I bought *a lot* of salted butter which I’m going to continue to enjoy every chance I get!
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Family Literacy Day (January 2018)
Happy Family Literacy Day!
Here’s some pics from a Family Literacy Day event we had at the library a few years back…
Wordle? Why Yes, I’m Something of an Authority Myself…
Well, maybe not an authority but a recent blog post may have at least convinced a couple people at the Mother Corp that I should be interviewed for a CBC story about the game! 😉
(And I’m going to lose sleep tonight thinking how that beautiful pre-planned quote came off worse than I intended simply because I accidentally said “watch Netflix and we binge Netflix. Gah – I didn’t mean to say that redundant first part and ruin the rhythm of the whole quote!”)
“A Warm Glowing Lantern” – Design Unveiled For New Saskatoon Downtown Library #yxe
This looks amazing – can’t wait to visit!
New Central libraries have been built in most major Canadian cities over the past decade from Halifax to Winnipeg to Calgary to Vancouver among many others. And now Saskatoon will join that list!
Every single one of these new Central libraries have become community hubs, centres of learning and symbols of the community they represent.
It was a highlight of a trip to Calgary a couple years ago when we visited their new Central Library on a Saturday afternoon and saw *multiple* wedding parties using the library as a backdrop for their wedding photos.
Can you imagine???
Libraries are not (and have never been) purely about “books” as is commonly assumed. Books are actually how public libraries trick people into being part of civic society! 🙂
Music Monday – “Yeah, to the farmers and the first responders/To the truck drivers shiftin’ gears/Every nurse that needs a break, let me buy you a drink/There ain’t no “I” in beer”
Great pandemic song/video and somewhat ironic that truckers get a shout-out given the KluTruxKlan “Freedom” convoy happening right now. But the reality is unvaxxed truckers are a very small minority and most truckers and the national trucking association support vaccinations.
“No ‘I” in Beer” – Brad Paisley
Saturday Snap – Not Sure Who’s Enjoying The Giant Snow Hill In Our Backyard More…
…these guys or the kids:
