Remembrance Day 2015 This is the forty-seventh Remembrance Day of my lifetime. Before that, it would have been Veterans Day, because I was not a Canadian immigrant and resident until June 19th, 1968. There is a marked difference between Remembrance Day in Canada and Veterans Day in the United States. There are no military parades down Main Streets festooned with national flags, nor marching bands and baton twirlers. There are only sombre ceremonies around the cenotaphs and such other war…..
Prompted by a columns in the Globe and Mail on Oct. 2nd and 3rd, 2015, “UN at 70 hears new tone of shared goals from world major powesr,” and “The UN has goals, but the action happens elsewhere.” Both articles are written by Doug Saunders. October 24, 1945, marked the founding of the United Nations. The hopes and dreams for peace in the world were pinned on this organization, above all others. Since its founding, the UN has had its…..
Ambivalence This is the 14th anniversary of the catastrophic events at the WTC on September 11, 2001. We, my wife and I, are in New York City on the occasion of that dreadful anniversary, but not for that occasion. This just happens to be the week of we chose for our yearly visit to the city. In truth, neither of us even considered the significance of this week in the history of the USA until the day before our scheduled…..
The Tao of Grandparenting The idea that each person lives under his own Dome of Heaven dominated my earliest thoughts as I began blogging several years ago (see the early posts to www.dome-of-heaven.com). In those posts, I was preoccupied with articulating that philosophy. That preoccupation led to some overly dense prose. Since completing the project that is “Through a Lens of Emptiness: Reflections on Life, Longevity and Contentment”, my mindset as moved from the profound to the practical. The next…..
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