Thought Archives – Page 34 of 41

Irresponsibility

I realize this is a lot late, and now thatÂ John McCain’sÂ campaign has shifted to something else he hasn’t a leg to stand on, but yesterday a buddy pointed me to an article posted on RollingStone.com. It was about the McCain campaign while on the road during the primary season. I couldn’t read it all. Frankly I found it quite uninteresting.

However towards the beginning of the piece, they dedicated a fair chunk of it to his time as a POW. I don’t know about you, but I’m a lot bored with people telling, and him allowing them to tell, those “tales.” I always have been. In fact I find the whole “hero” label and him being labeled one fairly problematic.

Everybody faces challenges every day. Some not as dire. Yet some worse. Not everyone lives to be recognized for their struggles. Or hopes to benefit from them quite as much as him being elected President might prove. I, for one,Â was a little more impressed with him when he “didn’t like to talk about it.” Even knowing full well that his reluctance to discuss his time in Vietnam was just a “warm-up” for things that followed. Call me a cynic, but we all should have known… Continue reading Irresponsibility

Here At Home

With so much of both the Canadian and American media attention focusing on the American Presidential election we better not forget to think of matters here at home. We have an election for Prime Minister of Canada on October 14? I think.

Of course when I wrote “we better not forget” I really meant “I better not forget.” Can you blame me (I wasn’t really asking)? I’m a little more concerned about a very conservative, very small minded Governor of Alaska being just a step away from the American Presidency. Lets just say I’m a little worried.

And be that as it may letting it consume me isn’t an option with Steven Harper looking for a “majority government.” Continue reading Here At Home

Much More Fulfilled

Emotions surrounding today are compounded, two fold. The first, and rather obvious, is the attack on The World Trade Center, September 11th, 2001. Which, I’m sure, will receive it’s fair share of misguided coverage in the media today.

And of course events of that morning had a lot to do with the emotions I currently feel. What with America still as arrogant, if not more, than September 10th, 2001. The harder they fight, what they deem as threats to their homeland and their “sovereignty,” the less relevant its government becomes. And the less “safe” our global community grows. In fact it’s much too ironic for even me to appreciate. So I’ll leave it there.

But ever more applicable to me, at least, is the second and more personal reason. It started a little bit before that day, on the July 1st weekend… Continue reading Much More Fulfilled

Out Of Step

Ever get the feeling you’re the only one in the world with their head on “right?” Well, for me, today is just one of those days.

For the past few years I’ve been undergoing a rather aggressive regimen of a rather “traditional” therapy. And I just had a “dose” of that therapy. Anyway my therapist and I have been talking about a new avenue of therapy her and her husband have recently been exploring. Last week she was supposed to email me with further details regarding it, in the form of a web address I assume, but, since then, she has informed me they have been looking at different “sources” for the “technique.”

Honestly I’m not entirely sure of what she is looking at or for that matter hoping to accomplish. But I’m always open to looking at variety, especially where my therapy is concerned. If it makes sense to me.. Continue reading Out Of Step