Monthly Archives: March 2015
20 Feet From Stardom
I missed that the 2014 Academy Award for best documentary film went to a movie about background vocalists in pop music titled 20 Feet From Stardom. But I made up for that recently and watched the film, attracted to it because I recognized the names of the stars. I am an voracious reader. If it’s […]
Yoros Castle
Castles come in different varieties. There are those well preserved that you can tour and marvel at all the furnishings and décor from centuries past, seeing how people used to live. And there are those that are nothing more than ruins, leaving everything to the imagination. Yoros Castle in in ruins. It sits at the […]
Don’t Ask Me!
Why do people ask me what my favourite Bible verse is? I just don’t get it. Is it some type of spiritual test, to see if I am good enough? The Bible is a universal book. Each person reacts to it differently. It feels a little weird to me to single one verse out for […]
Ode To Joy
I was planning on taking the day off from posting, then came across this video. If you are receiving this by email you’ll have to go to the actual post for it to work. The bank that sponsored this has benefited from the publicity – more than 61 million views on YouTube. I don’t mind […]
Criminal Stupidity
I’ve always thought I would be a pretty good criminal. I think I am smart enough to plan and execute crimes that would reap enough financial reward that I could retire after one or two such attempts. I’ve never followed through though. I believe in the law and justice, as imperfect as we humans have […]
Beatles III – My Beatle Encounter
I met a Beatle once. It was the late 1990s and Pete Best, the band’s drummer from 1960-62, was touring Canada fronting the Pete Best Band. He had retired after a career as a British civil servant and was just playing for fun, and really what amounted to spare change. I think the tickets were […]
Beatles II – Concert Memories
I never saw The Beatles in concert. I blame my parents for that. It was 1964 and they were playing at the Forum in Montreal. All my friends wanted to go. My parents, like most other parents of the day, said no. I think the only person I knew who actually made it to the […]
Beatles I – 10,000 Hours in Hamburg
Sometimes stories take on a life of their own. Author Malcom Gladwell, in his book Outliers, makes a point about the importance of repetition, the idea that practice makes perfect, which is something I agree with him about for the most part. He says if you practice something for 10,000 hours you will become really […]
The Rainbow
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring […]
Best Friends?
To me it was a reminder that we can adapt to almost anything when I saw these two cats sharing a chair this past week.. The orange one spends most of his time harassing the black and white one, chasing him around the house, stealing his food and generally making his life miserable. The daily […]
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