Month: October 2023

The Last Gift : 4 Ways to Outlive Your Life

Making your last words last for generations Physical death is a certainty. Please feel free to present your arguments for or against this reality. Spiritual death remains a subject that has fascinated humans since they first wondered about it – while they roamed the earth, hunting and gathering and before they found a belief system Read More

War, Remembrance and ‘Modern’ Times

To All Elected and Unelected Canadians,   Some of you may be old enough to remember your first of many assemblies for a Remembrance Day memorial that you attended in the gymnasium at your elementary school. You will have made poppies and pictures out of craft paper, glue and crayons to be displayed prior to Read More

Municipal Affairs – City of Airdrie Corporation…and their partners and stakeholders…of course.

“You quite often get the government you didn’t vote for.” – Howard And….the City of Airdrie is also heavily committed to U.N. Agenda 21/30 Sustainable Development Goals, E.S.G.s, and U.N.D.R.I.P. initiatives. Some purview! From: Al Neitsch Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:02 p.m.To: Peter Brown; mayor@airdrie.ca; al.jones@airdrie.ca; ron.chapman@airdrie.ca; darrell.belyk@airdrie.ca; Candice.Kolson@airdrie.ca; Heather Spearman; tina.petrow@airdrie.caCc: Airdrie-East; Blake Read More

Bovine, Cow, Human

We often think of wild animals as being fiercely independent of domestic, human species, yet many of them have incredibly strong parental instincts that drive them to protect their families and young ones. Despite the differences between various species, all animals share some basic characteristics, such as the ability to move around in ‘wild’ habitat, Read More

Hunters and Collectors – Scream Who

Portions from Wikkipedia : Hunters & Collectors are an Australian rock band formed in 1981. Fronted by founding mainstay, singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour, they developed a blend of pub rock and art-funk. Other mainstays are John Archer on bass guitar, Doug Falconer on drums and percussion. Soon after forming they were joined by Jack Howard on trumpet and keyboards, Jeremy Read More

War and Remembrance

Letter to Alberta’s Premier, MP, MLAs and Airdrie Corporate UNDRIP Enterprises To All Elected and Unelected,   How much more of Canada’s slide into post nationhood are you willing to accept? Remembrance Day was once a solemn event to honor members, past and present, of our once proud military. Declining recruitment is being attributed to Read More

On Fear, Anger and….Forgiveness?

An unpleasant truth is that human civilization has not progressed very much from the prehistoric times of roaming groups of hunters and gatherers. How warring tribes of humans went from great discoveries like fire and the wheel through to the iron ages and various industrial and technical revolutions and then progressed to this latest mess Read More

And When I Die

From the day I died, things started to get strange, but eerily familiar…but in a good way. The sky was blue as it once was, the clouds formed in natural white shapes. The air was warm and clean and fresh as if it had just rained on apple trees and fresh cut grass. The trees, Read More

When Soul Leaves Body (That Thing We Hope Never To See)

Most humans have an essence, an essential energy that keeps their body moving, their brain working with their body to find a use for itself and to somehow find meaning, joy, and purpose. This essence is often referred to as the soul. A brief definition of soul is : the spiritual essence of a person, which includes Read More

Love Is Love…You Must Hate Hate…Or Else!

To: Peter Brown; mayor@airdrie.ca; Danielle Smith Cc: Airdrie-Cochrane; Airdrie-East; ron.chapman@airdrie.ca; al.jones@airdrie.ca; darrell.belyk@airdrie.ca; Heather Spearman; Candice.Kolson@airdrie.ca; tina.petrow@airdrie.ca Elected and Unelected Officials – For Your Discernment,   I’m sure that you are all aware of the Canada wide assemblies that took place on September 20, 2023. Regardless of your own personal views on where the motivations of either side of Read More