SENSE AND NONSENSE

  • What’s My Job?

    Perhaps the world of humanity is akin to a giant bee hive? My personal belief is that we all, whether we realize it or not, have a job to do here on this earth. And possibly, as we carry on into the next world as well. Perhaps we are all part of “The Whole?” Our…

  • The Aging Brain

    As I approach the age of wisdom I also enter into the age of forgetfulness. Particularly when I am low on sleep. My mind and my eyes process things in a series of postcard-like images and thoughts. It all comes together quite well eventually, but slower than in the days of yore. It’s hard to…

  • MENTAL ILLNESS AFFECTS EVERYONE IN THE FAMILY

    My youngest daughter Fern was 10 years old when her brother Bruce was struck down by schizophrenia. Ironically her sister Debbie suffered from symptoms of clinical depression at almost the same time. At one point, Fern and I visited her two siblings who were ensconced in separate wards on the third floor of Prince George…

  • What I Have Learned About Brain Chemical Disorders

    By Doris Ray, (author of THE GHOSTS BEHIND HIM published by Caitlin Press 1999. Received BC 2000 BOOK AWARD) I am hoping the general public is beginning to understand that erratic and sometimes criminal behavior sometimes stems from a serious chemical disorder within the human brain. When a brain chemical disorder affects the thought processes,…

  • On Being Sober by Joel West

    A very inspirational Facebook post by Mr. Joel West of Burns Lake, BC In life sometimes we get blinded by the bad, the negative and most times forget that we are all here for a reason and that our lives have purpose, that we all have it in us to help each other and that…

  • On Gambling by Joel West

    If there is one thing I wish could happen is that I never started going to the casino. I need to stop now, cause it’s getting to be too much. I was reintroduced to it again here in kamloops. I am just not in a good place right now in my life. I don’t know…

  • SOMETIMES…

    Sometimes…  I need to step back  From all the chaos  I need to get back to  Everyday living  Bake a cake  Wash the dishes  Cast no blame  Don’t ruminate  Sometimes…   I need to know the answer  To a question  Why is the sky blue  And why I can no longer  Communicate  With you  Sometimes… I’d like to learn the…

  • OLD ENOUGH TO THINK ABOUT THINGS

    There are plenty of atheists and agnostics (I used to be one) out there. The ones I know are lovely people, although they are doubters. As with everyone else, some are happy and some are not Here is my take on the subject: If there was no God, to whom or to what could we…

  • What’s On My Mind

    What’s On My Mind

    What’s on my mind, Facebook asks? I am thinking about “God” “Allah” “Our Creator” “Great Spirit” and all other honorable labelling of Whomever created and continues to create, recreate, renovate, and update bits and pieces of our universe and all other universes; suns, moons and stars. I used to believe “God” was male, and then…

  • Originally posted on SENSE AND NONSENSE: Prompt: a curtal sonnet is shorter than a normal sonnet. It has a first stanza of six lines,followed by a second stanza of four, and then closes with a half-line. Oh how I’d love to have a sleep-filled night, For rested  mind;  blithe spirit; muscle strength, A sleep of seven hours, or even…