As I went began hitchhiking I learned what I needed to know to survive. At times it was by trial and error, other times by the hard way. I used to listen to the old timers of the road, hobos if you wish. Looking neat and tidy was a must. So was having regular showers and doing laundry at every …
Hitchhiking Across Western Canada Part 1 Each highway had its own personality. Highway 3 – Crowsnest Highway – connects Hope. B.C. with Medicine Hat, Alberta. This highway passes through farmland but once it enters western Alberta the mountains have begun. It changes from hard working plain speaking farmers to free thinkers – eccentrics if you wish. Highway 3 in B.C. …
Hitchhiking – A Way Of Clearing My Head There was a time when I hit the road on a whim. At times it was on my days off from work, other times I was on the road for weeks or months at a time. Usually I had a specific destination to head to; sometimes it was where the wind blew …
‘I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon weariness and dissipating. I like being alone. I never found the companion was as companionable as solitude.’ – Henry David Thoreau “…a time to keep silence and a time to speak.’ – Ecclesiates 3:7 It’s up to …
Moron! What The Hell Is Wrong With You? There’s a question that we ask far too often, and one we ask of far too many people. It is, “What the hell’s wrong with you?” Personally, I want to slap somebody when I hear them say it. Myself included. You see, it’s a presumptuous statement that implies the perfection of one, …
As I get older and less idealistic, I became more realistic on how I lived my life and viewed the world. I started to clean out the clutter in my mind. As this happened the scales fell from my eyes and wax dropped out of my ears. As a result things started to get a lot clearer for me. I …
Here are yet more random thoughts of mine… Once the wedding vows are spoken, the rings placed on the fingers and the reception is over, how many couples start acting like their parents? This might be a good reason to get married later in life when the couple has more life experience behind them… The truth hurts but a lie …
‘A believer is a bird in a cage. A freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with timeless wings.’ – Robert Ingersoll I really wonder why critical thinking hasn’t caught on with people. Maybe it will, probably it won’t, but coming to my own conclusions is more appealing to me than settling for conventional thinking. Critical thinking is exercise for …
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. – Nikola Tesla It is my hope that curiosity, thinking and silence never fall by the wayside or disappear. All three serve a vital service in maintaining balance in person’s life. Curiosity Curiosity motivates …
