Hitchhiking Across Western Canada Part 1 Each highway had its own personality. Highway 3 – Crowsnest Highway – connects Hope. B.C. with Medicine Hat, Alberta. This highway passes through farmland but once it enters western Alberta the mountains have begun. It changes from hard working plain speaking farmers to free thinkers – eccentrics if you wish. Highway 3 in B.C. …
Hitchhiking – A Way Of Clearing My Head There was a time when I hit the road on a whim. At times it was on my days off from work, other times I was on the road for weeks or months at a time. Usually I had a specific destination to head to; sometimes it was where the wind blew …
‘I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon weariness and dissipating. I like being alone. I never found the companion was as companionable as solitude.’ – Henry David Thoreau “…a time to keep silence and a time to speak.’ – Ecclesiates 3:7 It’s up to …
As I get older and less idealistic, I became more realistic on how I lived my life and viewed the world. I started to clean out the clutter in my mind. As this happened the scales fell from my eyes and wax dropped out of my ears. As a result things started to get a lot clearer for me. I …
Once the wedding vows are spoken, the rings placed on the fingers and the reception is over, how many couples start acting like their parents? This might be a good reason to get married later in life when the couple has more life experience behind them… The truth hurts but a lie can hurt more as long as you don’t …
‘A believer is a bird in a cage. A freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with timeless wings.’ – Robert Ingersoll I really wonder why critical thinking hasn’t caught on with people. Maybe it will, probably it won’t, but coming to my own conclusions is more appealing to me than settling for conventional thinking. Critical thinking is exercise for …
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. – Nikola Tesla It is my hope that curiosity, thinking and silence never fall by the wayside or disappear. All three serve a vital service in maintaining balance in person’s life. Curiosity Curiosity motivates …
I never want to be as sure of anything as the people who built this place.” – Anonymous Agnostic One thing we need to do as a species is to find out what reality is and start telling people about it. Sounds like a tall order, but combined with rigorous honesty to say what is necessary and not be afraid …
‘Everyone wants to get to Heaven but no one wants to die.’ – attributed to B.B. King I used to think that religious faiths were there to help guide a person to connect with God. I’m now convinced that at times it is the furthest thing from the truth. When dealing with incoming information one needs to use discernment to …
The Politically Correct I’m beginning to think that the politically correct have the best comedy writers writing their material. The only problem being that the politically correct take everything so seriously, to the point they don’t see humor anywhere. All they seem to think is that the rest of us need to be babysat and are incapable of making our …
It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. – Marcus Aurelius We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking those ideas to ourselves away to somebody else, to something else. – Terence McKenna Book Review: 1984 by George Orwell Part 1 Book Review: …
