Monday RANT!!!

Humanity Lost

Somehow along the way in all the "progress" of our times...we have lost our humanity.

Now that may sound like a really negative statement and you may wonder what has brought me to say something so harsh.

It is just daily observations of how people interact or don't interact with others. For example. last week i brought one of my two trailers (don't ask) home to get ready to deliver the old to its new owner. I left the trailer in the back lane, knowing that technically it is illegal to do so. But knowing that the Calgary Parking Authority does not go out looking for trailers parked in lane ways, I thought i would be OK for a few days to get things sqaured away on the trailers.

But less than 24 hours after it was there, I had a Seisure Notice and a lovely $40.00 ticket to go along with it from the Calgary Parking Authority.

Now, I know I was technically in the wrong. I admit that. However, what bothers me is that whoever reported me to the Calgary Parking Authority did not have the decency to come and talk to me directly to find out what my intentions were.

Instead, they took a cowards approach and "tattled" on me while hiding in their house. People today are far to quick to take the easiest way and are not wanting to open the door to having a discussion with others. This is a very sad statement on our society.

thats it..thats my Monday RANT. lets all find a way to bring our humanity back to everyday living….

 

I leave you with my Favourite Quote:  
"I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human." ~ John Trudell

 

Jim

 

 

Happy Solstice

Non-Conformity

Over the weekend, I began reading Chris Guillebeau’s book – The Art of Non-Conformity. One section that stood out was where he listed 11 ways to be unremarkably average. In fact, I liked it so much I had to share it today:

1. Accept what people tell you at face value

2. Don’t question authority

3. Go to college because you’re supposed to, not because you want to learn something 

4. Go overseas once or twice in your life, to somewhere safe like England

5. Don’t try to learn another language; everyone else will eventually learn English

6. Think about starting your own business, but never do it

7. Think about writing a book, but never do it

8. Get the largest mortgage you qualify for and spend 30 years paying for it

9. Sit at a desk 40 hours a week for an average of 10 hours of productive work

10. Don’t stand out or draw attention to yourself

11. Jump through hoops. Check off boxes.

If you want nothing out of life, all you have to do is follow Chris’s list.

Bring on Spring

Spring is here….

The spring equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year. Day and night are equal, poised and balanced, but about to tip over on the side of light. The spring equinox is sacred to dawn, youth and to renewal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Spring

Jim

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more,

From these our interviews, in which I steal

From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the Universe, and feel

What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

 

~ LORD BYRON

these times are a changin'

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“The mountains are calling and I must go.” ~ John Muir