Guest Author Shaun Carter presents us with a look into whether our lives are determined day-by-day, or woven more intricately before we even know.
Archives for June 2013
A Brief History Of Guide Dogs
The unique bond between man and dog is perhaps best illustrated by the incredible freedom thousands of seeing dogs provide their visually impaired owners across the world. Here is a brief history of how guide dogs came to be.
Dragons and Girls
The smell of blood, sweat, and ozone permeates the landscape. And the air weeps, making the ground slick and as dangerous as the fire hurled from the sky. One wrong step means certain death for the person unfortunate enough to fall down by this precipice.
Tarmac Meditations #127: Rollin’ Fast and Gone
Started daydreamin’ when I should have been working. Thinking about races upcoming and the incredible places we get to run through. Even me, old and slow though I have become, I am still running with a camera from place to place.
New York – Endless Options
New York seems to alternate between madness and brilliance.
The madness part is easy to spot. Eight million residents and more than 50 million visitors each year make for congestion and queues, occasional frayed tempers and a colourful cast of characters ranging from drag queens to buskers to illicit street vendors.
Gradient
I swim through dreams, foggy and dense, shift awake, shift back to bed, restless and cold; And it is black in the time between day and rest.
Helping Your Dog Get It Right
Our dogs will sometimes get it wrong when we are training with them. How we deal with those mistakes determines not only how fast they learn the behaviour but also their attitude about working with us. Should we focus on getting the results we want or helping our dog get it right?
Where Are Craigdarroch Castle’s Original Building Plans?
Castle Society members, volunteers, and others have been looking for the long-lost building plans for Craigdarroch Castle for decades. All of the logical public repositories have been checked. The descendants of Craigdarroch’s architects, Warren H. Williams and Arthur L. Smith, have also been contacted. They have no idea where the Castle’s plans ended up.
A Balanced View
If you focus too much on the other person’s flaws, you miss everything you are adding to the equation. Furthermore, you miss all the other person’s positives, perhaps to the point where you reject someone who could be a great partner for you.
Filmmaking 101 Part 6 – Shoot Day
We made a movie. That makes it sound so easy. But from my point of view, it was. I was surrounded by professionals who knew what they were doing. I stayed out of their way, called “action” and “cut”, gave the occasional note to the cast or to Becky, and watched everyone else work extremely hard.