H.K. is the 3rd largest financial centre after New York and London. I support the protesters and hope their aims and desires are followed – that the Chinese do not force only Chinese politicians to run in he upcoming election(s). The people of Hong Kong have for years proudly looked after and had control of […]

Tuesday – on    <knowledgenetwork.ca> World War I The Ottoman Empire was, unknown to most, virtually bankrupt; yet acted as an empire nevertheless. acting as though they had right to empire.   Local men still said prayers for the ‘incariss’ [sp?]   “I am returning to Constantinople – believing we shall still win our battle.” The […]

Big birds flyin’  – across the sky – Baby – can you hear me now – the chains are locked n tied across the door . . .   Help-less, helpless; helpless, helpless . . . we are “What we – believe We Are ~

Away form Her                                                                                       23-9-2014. ‘Away from Her’.  Yes, a movie, a movie of true depth and feeling and more . . but something more – one feels the feeling of ; especially, Gordon Pincent. Yes; we are in Nova Scotia; a special place that any who can should try to experience.  This movie was up […]

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Native American Gardening: Buffalobird-Woman’s Guide to Traditional Methods was first published in 1917 as Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation and has been reprinted in numerous editions (and with slightly varying titles) in the following hundred years. This is not surprising because Buffalobird-Woman’s comments, interpretations and…

Thursday – 18th-9-2014. Propinquity – word worth knowing. I would like to hope that most of us have experienced propinquity. There’s the Oxford; and there’s the way my friend explained . . . Patrick said “You know how sometimes you go somewhere, and you start to feel that someone else holds a same feeling, the […]

. . . watching, for the numerous and more time, a part of Platoon. I consider that in my opinion to be one of if not the best movies portraying life on the killing floor. It draws me back to it every time I see it on ~ The Killing Floor. Oh, yeah; I was […]

Tuesday, 16-9-2014. I had a good visit with a friend Friday last. We had about an hour together, and spoke of a number of things . . . one thing I told him was that although I have a # of things that I would be happy to work at, projects, planning, fundraising, more; that […]

Monday Evening- 15-9-2014. As in the program “Black Coffee” – ‘The Irresistible Bean’ – [2009] – after talking of coffee first grown in Ethiopia, beans then smuggled out under clothing to where it was taken to Yemen. From there, it then was grown and traded into Europe. The industrious Dutch then also found the way […]

terrific animal artworks as well as the works of a great mural project , , ,