Tag: compassion
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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November 06, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
Mistakes were Made, but not by me
Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
I first heard about this book on the CBC a few months ago; and I immediately established a hold on the book at my local library . . .
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November 16, 2008 10:09 AM EST --
I was surprised to learn on the CBC this morning that on Wednesday of last week, a group of young women was attacked and acid thrown in their faces. Details are difficult to find (and a bit contradictory): . . .
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November 05, 2008 09:41 PM EST --
I went to visit my previous manager at my old job tonight; it's only been a few weeks since I left, but we still chatted about old times and changes in the company and where things were going. It made . . .
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November 07, 2008 05:46 PM EST --
When I was in grade eight (that's eighth grade to my American cousins) I had one bear of a teacher for English. He was known across the school as the hardest teacher for the subject. I guess I would . . .
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September 15, 2008 04:52 PM EDT --
It's been a busy week and I've not been on top of the election like I had intended. But there was something that happened in Toronto that struck my interest. It's been in all the news; a child . . .
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August 20, 2008 09:16 PM EDT --
I'm reading a book about WWII... in these days when war is all around us (even though we may not perceive it directly) I figured it was a good idea to read some about other wars. Actually, . . .
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October 26, 2008 03:04 PM EDT --
Last week the CBC did a piece on Flora MacDonald , a woman who (in the 1980s) was the first Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Canada, and one of the first female foreign ministers in the world. . . .
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December 04, 2008 11:19 PM EST --
There was a recent question about Disney movies that started me thinking, and I have to tell this story. I have never been a big one as far as movies went in general; they tend to be too expensive and . . .
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February 02, 2009 09:16 PM EST --
Have you ever read Fahrenheit 451? It's by Ray Bradbury (born 1920) who is one of the masters of science and speculative fiction in the world: he has been writing for over fifty years. Indeed, this . . .
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April 11, 2009 11:14 PM EDT --
It had been a rough day for Kathi. She had slept in and missed her bus, then been rebuked at work for wearing the wrong kind of shirt and told to leave early. Exams were coming up and she knew that she . . .
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August 26, 2008 06:21 PM EDT --
I read an article this morning by Russell M about "Death and Time" (which itself is a reflection from another post). The article itself stirred memories and emotions connected to the deaths . . .
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September 02, 2008 07:37 PM EDT --
Wow. I have to admit I was worried about posting my first article because so many of my discussions in the States that touched on Health Care always slammed the Canadian System. I remember when I first . . .
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September 05, 2008 03:45 PM EDT --
Years ago I started reading: I remember the library at my junior high like the back of my hand. I discovered so many books there. I remember The Forgotten Door , by Alexander Key (he was the same guy . . .
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September 06, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
I wanted to write this after all the wonderful comments that followed my Madeleine L'Engle post.
As I've mentioned previously, I was in a car accident in 2001 and a coma for six weeks. . . .
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December 19, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
I recently read a comment on one of my posts that deserves a longer discussion. It illustrates what I believe is a misunderstanding of the concept of relativity. The comment was:
"The ability . . .
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April 28, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
When I first discovered this book, one which is written by Marvin Olasky, one of the founders of the Compassionate Conservatism movement, I was excited. The forward of the book was written in 2000 by . . .
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April 04, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
It is ironic that the day before the shooting rampage in Binghamton, one of our gather members posted the town as #1 in her list of affordable places to retire . I suppose this might be true... as long . . .
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December 01, 2008 11:01 PM EST --
It's not a day of celebration, but one of remembrance. This is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. It is day to remember what once was, and how it might be again. Most of us know people . . .
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March 13, 2009 11:36 PM EDT --
The Fifth Estate is one of our news programs that explores and presents news from aparticularly Canadian perspective to the world. It is on CBC, but like anything these days it is available . . .
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April 30, 2009 11:25 PM EDT --
Someone commented on one of my posts that he believed that it was “okay” to torture. I read the comment and drew a breath; my immediate reaction was rather base. But if one person can leave . . .
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