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Loch Morrison
The Family Dynamic Let me make a brash general statement. Everything interesting in life involves the attempt to resolve conflict, to find harmony in dissonance, to bring order to chaos…….. generally to find balance or stasis. All the temporal arts, music, poetry, literature etc. use this push and pull, this tease of fulfillment, as a way to provide narrative and…
Read MoreCottage Life
Mikey Goes On Vacation I’m heading north to a special lake in the famous Muskoka area of central Ontario. Muskoka is Toronto’s traditional summer getaway being only 140 kms from the city limits. I’ll be spending a week in a rented cottage with my family which consists of two sisters, a brother, two nieces and two nephews. Also staying with…
Read MoreThe Pipes Are Calling Ye
The Riot In Dublin The “Troubles” began in the early 1900’s with Irish defiance of British colonialism. Over the years protests, assassinations and rioting would be very intense for a period of time. Then there would be something akin to a cease-fire and the problem would fade out of the World’s consciousness for months, even years on end.…
Read MoreTrump Vs Trudeau…..what started it all
Trump Has Held A Grudge Since This Incident President Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in February of 2017 in what was hailed as a significant tightening and reaffirmation of the historical bonds of friendship and economic cooperation across the world’s longest undefended border. A “diplomatic success on all counts” was how mainstream Canadian…
Read MoreFickle Finger Of Fate
“Chance” in a positive sense comes in two species: Fortune and the avoidance of Misfortune. True story: This dude, charicatured here as a sort of hapless loser, survived an astonishing series of deadly situations. A train derailment into a river drowning 17, an airplane crash that killed everyone else on board, three serious (and bizarre) car accidents and after all that, hit…
Read MoreThe Best Shows Ever Gave
Barry Keane and I have come up with some interesting “Themed” tours. A Surreal Evening of Tibetan Twang Dolly Parton Salvador Dali Dalai Lama The…
Read MoreLeft At Albuquerque
As part of this trip we’re currently on, we had to fly from El Paso TX to Scottsdale AZ. We passed over Albuquerque NM at 40,000 feet and I was reminded of an emergency landing we made there just last year. We were heading back to Toronto from Scottsdale and at around 1:00 am MST…
Read MoreSacramento
Hi everyone. It’s been a while. I’m going to try and get these posts going again on a regular basis. You’ve heard that before from me, I know. We’re into day 3 of a western US trip. At the moment I’m 10,000 feet above California just skirting the Bay Area on our way from Sacramento to…
Read MoreMtH #23 Relativity Speaking
MtH #23 Relativity Speaking I was feeling a little funny about the “Benevolent Universe” thing I got into a few weeks ago. “What was I smoking?” I thought, “my readers are going to mistake me for a sensitive new age guy”. After a few attempts at reworking it I thought “screw it” and resolved to…
Read MoreMtH #22 Alternate Reality
The Passage It’s like a separate universe. Ten or eleven times a year I get on our airplane de mois in Toronto, wedge myself into a cramped nook formed by the seat, my backpack and the wall of the jet and promptly fall asleep. I wake up sometimes and realize, after a puzzled moment or two, that I’m in…
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