SENSE AND NONSENSE

  • Peacefulness (one of the Virtues)

    PEACEFULNESS (ONE OF THE VIRTUES) It’s hard to differentiate ‘Tween angst and anger; hurt and hate When in your heart you feel a pain It could simply be the rain… If someone whom you love a lot Does not give a second thought To what you deem important stuff You think they do not care…

  • Layton- ania

    Perhaps the extreme sense of loss we Canadians are experiencing at the death of Jack Layton  is that we think Jack’s “time at bat” – to use baseball terminology – was cut short before he’d rounded the bases? Perhaps his death at the relatively young age of 61 will spur others to concentrate on what carried him through the length and breadth of his political career? Jack’s priorities were…

  • Bee’s Recovery From Depression

    In  the spring of 1985 my daughter Bee recovered from her horrific struggle with symptoms of  major depression. The final verses of her song  “The Hall of Mirrors” describe the  experience of attaining joy and spiritual renewal.  Since that time she has managed all symptoms without the use of medication. Is anybody out there? Can anyone see me? Is anybody waiting for me to start to see what’s going on…

  • Brain Chemical Disorders- Major Depression

    BRAIN CHEMICAL DISORDERS by Doris Ray Major Depression Major depression is the most common of all brain chemical disorders. According to statistics one man in ten and one woman in five will suffer a serious depression at some time in their lives. Many of us become depressed when we anticipate or experience unpleasant situations. It’s…

  • Panic Attacks

    BRAIN CHEMICAL DISORDERS by Doris Ray Panic Attacks I had my first panic attack when I was about 13 and in the eighth grade. The teacher in our small rural school had asked me to read a poem to the class from our English textbook. I had been reading aloud to this same bunch of…

  • My Cancer Diary

    MY CANCER DIARY by Doris Ray On September 21st 2007 Premier Campbell announced that the North would finally come of age—medically speaking. By 2012 we should have acquired all the health benefits and convenience of having a cancer clinic in the region. I recalled my own encounter with the big “C”  which I had chronicled…

  • The Law of Opposites?

    Why do we assume that  everything in the world of nature and in the human world  are in opposition to one another? Possibly it originates from the scientific theory  “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?” But that theory only refers to a force that’s expending energy- something in motion. It has nothing to do with abstract terms such as “dark” versus “light” or…

  • Rap Song about Fraser Lake- anybody want it?

    IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN In nineteen hundred and sixty-five The town of Fraser Lake was like a bee-hive People moving in from far away In the shadow of the mountain They had come to stay Brand new houses and a shopping mall Streets, a water system, recreation hall One year later Fraser Lake…

  • I’m Smarter Than I Thought

    I sometimes wonder if I’m all there…We had stopped in McBride on the way home from Alberta, to spend the afternoon and evening resting at a motel. During the trip, we’d stopped at several motels and I’d become fairly organized – or so I thought. This time we brought in a small suitcase stocked with pills, nightime necessities, clean underwear and socks. We were leaving at the crack of…

  • Darn, I LIKE Christy Clark….

    That Christie Clark is one smart woman! In the short time that  she’s been premier, she’s made the HST seem palatible and less  of a dirty trick played on an unsuspecting public after the last provincial election. She’s gonna reduce the tax from 12 percent to 10 percent – sometime within the next 2 years. If she wasn’t a politician she’d have made a…