Archive: Period from Aug 02 - Nov 05, 2005

 

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

 

 

Knowledge is like a garden:
if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

--Proverb from Guinea

 

 

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

--Bertrand Russell

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has 'closed', the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. AND I AM CAESAR."

--Julius Caesar

Panoramic experimentation - Jericho Beach.

 

Baby News!! Barbara Ganseman and Tim Ireland just had a baby girl -- Nina Caitlin Ireland. Congratulations!!

 

We visited 'Your Local' Farmer's Market for the first time. A great atmosphere dominated by organic producers. The market has 3 locations. We visited the one by the Trout Lake Community Centre/Rink (the market uses part of the parking lot) - Victoria Dr. and 16th ave.

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These are some photos taken near a town called Britannia Beach (not much of a beach though) along highway 99 towards Whistler. The body of water is the Howe Sound. The Britannia Mining and Smelting Company owned the site for some sixty years. "The mine boomed in the late 1920s and early 1930s, becoming the largest producer of copper in the British Commonwealth by 1929. In 1946 the Britannia mines were unionized and suffered through their first strike. Low copper prices saw the Britannia Mine Company reduced to seven employees, and in 1959 it went into liquidation."

 

This weekend I was introduced to salmon fishing on the Puget Sound and the Snoqualmie river - both salt water and fresh water salmon! Another successful summer weekend thanks to Dan and Tracy and Dan's father, Juris. OK ... and Eric.

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Super woman, Kelly Sawatzky, finishes the 2005 Subaru Ironman Canada Triathlon in Penticton, BC!

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

Jalal ud-Din Rumi (1207-73) Persian poet, one of greatest Sufi poets.

Whale watching. From Steveston we went over the Straight of Georgia to the Gulf and San Juan Islands. We met the Orcas at the south end of the Swanson Channel. Following the salmon, the Orcas where making their way to the mouth of the Fraser river (Vancouver - Straight of Georgia).

 

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We recently went on a discovery trip to Bowen Island. Bowen Island is just a 20 minute ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay.

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In his 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language." George Orwell noted that the "decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes."

We recently visited Mt. Baker - Snoqualmie National Park in Washington State, USA. The drive from Vancouver is around 2 hours, door-to-mountain.

 

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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour. — Henry David Thoreau

"We are each one of us responsible for every war because of the aggressiveness of our own lives, because of our nationalism, our selfishness, our gods, our prejudices, our ideals, all of which divide us. And only when we realise, not intellectually but actually, as actually as we would recognise that we are hungry or in pain, that you and I are responsible for all this existing chaos, for all the misery throughout the entire world because we have contributed to it in our daily lives and are part of this monstrous society with its wars, divisions, its ugliness, brutality and greed — only then will we act. — Krishnamurti

It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. "Reality control," they called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink." - George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty Four)