Yesterday, I posted about the healing power of music and linked to an old folk song that I had never heard before – The Broom of the Cowdenknowes. I decided to do a little more research on the song and the plant called Scotch Broom. Broom comes in many varieties and grows almost everywhere. In […]
I read two blogs recently on new studies that use music to heal. The first was written by Ann Mullen on the power of music in transforming the lives of Alzheimer’s patients. The video in her post shows an elderly man who has not communicated in years. He is in an institution, now, but he loved
I love this pun. The original expression “may the force be with you,” is powerful. I don’t think that it is diminished in anyway by the humour of the wordplay. In fact I think that the pun adds another dimension to the phrase. We actually have a day dedicated to the wish that everyone will
I am fortunate that I live very close to a 200 acre arboretum. It’s actually a huge cemetery right in the centre of the city and about 5 minutes from my office. Yesterday was a beautiful Spring day – 18C, full sun, no wind, so I decided to go for a morning walk. It was
Here is another lift from a FB post. I apologize, but some are very funny. They are excepts from court records and I have to believe that they are true statements. WTF??? HOW DO COURT RECORDERS KEEP STRAIGHT FACES???? These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts and are things people actually
According to the site www.holidayinsights.com May is National Photograph month. I’m not sure why it isn’t National Photography month, but I think that was last month. So I’m trying to think of how one might celebrate the month. Of course we could take pictures. Maybe we should go through older pictures and organize them. If you
I obviously woke up “brain dead” this morning because I didn’t have an idea for a post. So I went back to my “word of the day” site to try and trigger a synapse or two in that lobe of the brain assigned to writing and other verbal creativity. The word for April 28 on
I decided to do a little more research on the Abacus. The device is ancient and is found in cultures from Asia to Africa and parts of Europe, with a similar idea, found in South America, using string The abacus is a testament to a) the cleverness of the human mind, b) the inventiveness of
