Some may say that Henry Burden was born with a horseshoe up his derriere. While horseshoes figured prominently, this self made millionaire owed more to hard work and inventiveness than to luck.
The Economics of Male Grief
The worst aspects of capitalism require humans to turn into machines. Cut off from our bodies. Cut off from our emotional worlds. Cut off, often, from the needs of the very Earth we live on, and are made of.
Professor Theodore Heinrich: A Monumental Man
Walking across a windswept parking on a bone-chilling, dark February night I had time to reflect on a movie and a former professor of mine who had been involved in recovering art stolen by the Nazis.
Taken Too Soon
Why is it that artistic brilliance is so often accompanied by such unfathomable emotional and psychological dysfunction and suffering that the star implodes and we are left with darkness long before we have been touched by all its facets?
A Pirate or Retired Sea Captain – That Sailed the Seven Seas Under A Clear Blue Sky
A centurion pirate, his looking glass and beloved mermaid once overlooked the conspiratorial sequence of events related to the progress of Victoria’s not so sheltered harbour.
Michael Palin: Monty Python is to Canada what Jerry Lewis is to France
During the latter part of June this year I had the privilege of spending 48 hours in Toronto with one of Britain’s top comedians, Michael Palin.
Three Beads (Part Four)
They arrived in Ngaliama late in the afternoon, the sun at its hottest, dust coating everything. Asya was surprised to find the village exactly the same as how she pictured it for these many years. It did not seem smaller, bigger, cleaner, or filthier; it was as if time had stood still here.
Multiculturalism in Action
The spacious dining room was buzzing with the lively accents of women from Israel, Hong Kong, Germany and the Philippines. Others born in Mexico, Thailand, the U.S., Indonesia, and yes, even Canada, completed the luncheon group that day, an intercultural gathering of friends who have shared times like these for the past 25-plus years.
Three Beads (Part Two)
In the middle of the night they crept to her mother’s friend two doors away. They clung to each other for many long minutes, tears glistening in the starlight. “When I am a rich doctor in America I will come and get you,” Asya promised her mother.
Explore the Creations of Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí is one of the world’s most celebrated architects and creator of many of Barcelona’s finest buildings, including, most famously, the unfinished Sagrada Familia. His buildings survive as a testament to the development of Modernism in architecture in late 19th and early 20th century Europe.
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