Beautiful night on the Bow River

Today is Earth Day and what better way to acknowledge the day by going for a walk down by the river.
We must remember to protect this resource for future generations. It is already in a precarious position now and we may soon loose this thing of beauty.

Jh

Mountain Views

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

How Beer Gave Us Civilization - NYTimes.com

I knew it!.. beer started it all…..

How Beer Gave Us Civilization - NYTimes.com: ""

(Via.)

Keep Jumbo Wild

As I have said here before ;Developing the Jumbo Wild area is just WRONG!

Having just returned from the area and witnessing the true magnifigance of the area and seeing how catrosphic a development like what is planned will destroy the it forever.

THIS IS WRONG…and no amount of money will make it right, we all must speak out and have this stupidity put to an end. This is not just a local issue, this is an environment issue that will effect us all.

Let the BC government know that this is wrong and that it will not help the local people and that it will only be a VERY expensive playground for the rich Calgarians, who do not contribute to the local economy.
This is not a good enough reason to destroy an area of such environmental significance.

Just my opinion.

What I am reading now...

We all need to find something that will nourish ones soul....
With many of our jobs today, we lack connection to the work we do, we never see tangible results of our effort, we deal in abstractions.
We have all become drones, automatons, in the giant cog of society....this is a "manifesto" to break free and create.

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Into-Matthew-B-Crawford/9780143117469-item.html?ikwid=shop+class+as+soulcraft&ikwsec=Home

Buy nothing...

The Manifesto

Buy Nothing Until 2013 is about freedom.

Freedom from consumerism. Freedom from corporations (or a little bit of freedom, at least). Freedom from debt and overspending. Freedom from the need to shop to be happy. Freedom from the use of shopping as therapy or stress relief. Freedom from shopping as a way to connect with others. Freedom from buying to show our love for others. Freedom from sales and holiday madness and malls and huge chain stores and crazy shoppers. Freedom from overuse of resources, from wasted packaging, from wasted fuel to ship all that junk to the store.

Freedom from crap we don’t need.

We are more than consumers. We don’t need to buy gifts to celebrate the holidays with each other — we can get together, make delicious food, go outside and do something fun, play games, talk, tell jokes, tell stories, give hugs.

We are alive, and don’t want to waste the hours we have in chain box stores and malls buying things we don’t really need.

We know that just because stores have massive sales doesn’t mean we need to buy what they’re selling. Sales don’t mean we’re saving money — it means we’re spending it. We used precious life hours earning our money, and we want to use that to live, not buy.

We are free from buying, and free to live.

Join us, and Buy Nothing Until 2013.

ENOUGH ALREADY !!

OK....ENOUGH!!!!!

 

I am so sick and tired of hearing all these f*#k'n commercials for Black Friday. 

 

Last time I checked, I was still a Canadian, not an American. I celebrate Thanksgiving when it is supposed to be celebrated...in October not freaking November. 

 

But really what is pissing me off is the unabashed consumerism that is being pushed by retailers.  We as Canadians, are following the US when it comes to being the most materialistic society in the world. Think about it, we define our lives by how much stuff we have, to a large degree our personal and business relationships are defined by how much money we make, and even most of the important dates on our calendar are all about materialism. ( spending money on shit we don't need)

 

Sadly, no matter how big our homes are and no matter how many shiny new toys we accumulate, we never seem to be happy. We always want more, and we always seem to be willing to go into more debt to get it. We are the most materialistic society in the history of the world, and our endless greed is going to end up swallowing us alive.

 

And yet here we are...allowing ourselves to be lead down the same materialistic path the US is on....why?

 

Because Canadian retailers are getting wrapped up in this Black Friday and cyber Monday frenzy that is just another tactic employed to get people to spend money that they don't need to spend. No matter how you try to justify it, it is just retailers trying to get you to part with your money on goods that you probably don't really need and to get wrapped up in the spending frenzy that starts with the Christmas season.

 

So, do yourself a favour, don't allow yourself to get caught up in this greed that is pushed upon you.. put a stop to the indiscriminate buying… .do something nice for yourself, spend time with your family...do anything but buy some useless piece of crap that you will end up regretting.. 

 

And remember… you are Canadian….not an American.