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I’ve recently had the occasion to write a few words about mindfulness meditation. In this post I will add a few words. I attended an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course at the Meditation for Health medical clinic in Toronto in 2004. It took me over a decade of daily meditation, between 20 and 40 minutes […]
Update We have a great discussion (please see comments below, and the photo – which you can enlarge if you click on it – at the very top of the page you are now reading) about the Banning of the Twist at MCHS in the early 1960s. The yearbook photo at the top of this […]
Beverley Sabo (nee Evans) has provided an update, by way of a Comment at a previous post, concerning the day when a memorable gym teacher turned up at the parking lot driving an XKE Jaguar. Click on the MCHS gym photo to enlarge it. Click again to enlarge it further. I am pleased to post […]
I am pleased to share with you this recent message from Graeme Decarie: My famous friends … Just to let you know that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were not the only aristocracy of my social circle, here is the tale of my meeting with Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, commander of Imperial […]
At the same event as mentioned at a previous post, I also spoke briefly on June 13, 2015, about Colonel Samuel Smith, with the following Speaking Notes as a guide. I highlighted a few points, and left out the rest. I enjoy organizing such talk, working in coordination with other people. The event was the […]
This post is concerned with one of the topics at the June 13, 2015 Long Branch Fest Community Storytelling Panel that will be taking place starting at 8:00 pm at the corner of Twenty Ninth Street and Lake Shore Blvd. West. Colonel Samuel Smith Below are Speaking Notes for the presentation about the History of Colonel […]
Why Toronto, not Montreal? What follows is an edited version of our April 1, 2015 discussion in Kitchener, among members of the Event Committee, about the “Why Toronto?” topic. This is a question that everybody has an opinion about. It’s a great topic for discussion. At our April 1, 2015 meeting, we had the following dialogue, which […]