Summer of Love 10 Seeing clearly By September of 1967 the residents of Haight Asbury had fallen out of love with the 100,000 hippies and flower children who had descended on their neighborhood for what had come to be known as the Summer of Love. The bloom was coming off the rose for the participants…
Bet They Didn’t Expect That!
Someone has been busy. I read an article the other day that nude pictures of Tiger Woods, Katharine McPhee, Kristen Stewart, and Miley Cyrus have all surfaced and ended up on the internet this week. I wonder if it ever crossed their minds that having nude digital pictures floating around was a bad idea? It’s…
Putting away Childish Things
Can you remember being a kid? Can you remember the thrill of each new morning and the wonder of each new day? Can you remember when a week seemed like an eternity, and it was a lifetime between Christmases? Can you remember nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and thinking that all stories had a happy…
Don’t Look Now
Another eclipse and again the world didn’t end. Did you catch the eclipse on Monday? It was pretty unspectacular in Halifax, certainly not worth flying here to see in your Lear jet. On the other hand, we are supposed to enjoy a complete eclipse in 2024. I remember the last time that happened, I was…
Love Never Fails
Summer of Love 5 Love Never Fails. The permanence of Love Well it’s been fifty years. Fifty years ago in Canada we celebrated our Centennial. Fifty years ago the Beatles released “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Fifty years ago Interracial Marriage was declared constitutional by The United States Supreme Court. Fifty years ago Elvis…
Sobering Stats
Last year there were more Canadians hospitalized due to alcohol than for heart attacks. Let that sink in for a while. According to a recent report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, there were about 77,000 hospitalizations in Canada that were caused entirely by alcohol. During the same period of time about 75,000 Canadians…
Love Keeps No Record of being wronged
2017 is an year of anniversaries. the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant reformation, the 150th anniversary of Confederation, it was a 100 years ago the survivors of the Shackleton expedition were rescued from Antartica. 2017 is the 40th Anniversary of Star Wars and The 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. Last week Deborah mentioned…
It’ Not Who, It’s How Many?
I wonder if Stephen Harper feels vindicated? He should! In 2005 when he suggested that same sex marriage was a slippery slope that could led to the further redefinition of marriage, including the possibility of polygamy, the media and government ridiculed the suggestion. When I mentioned polygamy to our MP he couldn’t understand how I…
Summer of Love: Love is not Jealous
Fifty years ago this summer I was a 7 year old living in Germany. So I didn’t make it to the summer of love. But others were there. George Harrison was there, as were The Who, Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia. They had joined the so called hippies and flower children who had…
You Can’t Change History
I hope you enjoyed the Canada Day Celebrations and took some time to be thankful for what we enjoy as Canadians. It was interesting to note this year the number of people who wanted to focus on some of the more unsavory aspects of our past. And there are certainly any number of things that…