In my last post, I mentioned the economic downturn that we are in now and how difficult it is to remain optimistic for young and old. The young have dim prospects in the job market and the old have seen their nest eggs shrink with the falling markets. Time to get inventive, like the organ […]
After years of telling us that we should see the glass half full, there now seems to be a shift to – seeing the glass half empty – as not a bad thing. Here’s why. Pessimists prepare for the worst. However, once things are resolved, the results are usually never as bad as they thought
My previous post was about Alchemy – the art of changing something worthless into something valuable, such as gold. There is, of course, the old fairy tale about the spinner who needed to turn straw into gold. Magically an elf heard her cries and offered to give her that power, in exchange for her first
I always remember a friend of mine, telling me once that she was sitting beside a young man on a plane and during the course of their conversation, she asked him what he did for a living. He said, “I’m an Alchemist.” She was amazed!! Five hundred years ago, this might have meant very little.
I usually try the cryptic crossword puzzle in the daily paper. Yesterday, there was a clue that I knew was an anagram, that is, the letters in the phrase “at shop” had to be rearranged to get a language spoken in Afghanistan. I didn’t know the language so I looked it up – Pashto. While
I’m in an on-line photography group which, in addition to running a picture-a-day challenge for 2013, also has mini challenges from time to time. Our moderator, Cricket Walker, has asked us to post pictures that say a lot about who we are now. BTW this is a very easy, open group, if you are interested
Yesterday I posted about the Canadian photographer, Margaret Watkins and the fact that she is one of the photographers chosen to grace a new issue of Canadian stamps. Her forte was not only pictures of still life, drawn from the home – literally kitchen sink photography, but she also photographed shop windows. Shopping or window
There was an article in the Sunday Star yesterday about an issue of new Canadian stamps. This series will honour Canadian photographers. I was thrilled. I love photography. Here is the article. I particularly liked the fact that they have chosen Margaret Watkins. Her pictures are often of domestic scenes, something that I can really
Yesterday’s post about scents really warranted a follow up. I think that the Demeter Fragrance Company needs some help in identifying perfumes for the letters U and X, since they have none listed. I thought that I might draw on my interest in poetry to give them some ideas. The first poem that came to
I can’t remember the exact day that they chose the new pope, but I think it was last Sunday. So today is Saturday – just a week later and Demeter, a fragrance company, has just launched a new scent, “Holy Water.” Perhaps the company started experimenting back in mid-February, when the last pope said he
