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…..
The Decline and Fall of Accumulated Wisdom The leading edge of the post-World War II baby boom generation is approaching the beginning of its eighth decade, and the accumulated wisdom and experience of that group will soon disappear if nothing is done to preserve it. Some members of that wave of humanity haven’t made it this far for one reason or another and have already passed on. Any closely held thoughts and philosophies they generated are essentially inaccessible save those…..
In my previous post, I declared that Emptiness is a useful and powerful tool for exploring the narrative of a lifetime, a narrative comprised of memories. The Emptiness of which I write is the productive emptiness of Taoism, and in my book I discuss that concept in some detail. The bare bones of the concept of productive emptiness hinges on the idea that the usefulness of anything is marked by its emptiness. Hence, a box is most useful when it…..
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