Imagine you have no where to go. Not because all of your friends are busy or you’re waiting for Friday to come to get paid. You have no home, no comfortable bed to sleep in tonight. You did manage to collect some money and you are setting up a tent on the sidewalk in front of …
Presents
A friend shared this with me. It's a thoughtful idea.It would be nice to share the email address with family members and close friends so they can contribute too.Perhaps the idea could be extended to other people. Like you make a box for a friend or family member and for a month or so before …
Hashtags
The hashtag was invented in 2007. A former Google employee named Chris Messina came up with the idea to group information with a # sign. I admit I am probably one of the last four people on the planet to get on the hashtag bandwagon. I still don’t quite get it, who really looks up …
Casa Loma: How much is too much?
I visited Casa Loma which is a castle in Toronto built by Canadian businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and soldier, Sir Henry Pellatt (1859 – 1939). He was friends with Thomas Edison and it was in large part due to his innovation that electricity was harnessed from Niagara Falls and was put to use in Canada. Casa Loma …
Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario
There is an audio tour for Casa Loma. If you like history I recommend visiting this landmark. At first I was hoping that there would be a docent but there is so much information about each room/area the audio tour turned out to be better. …
CN Tower & Perspective
Interesting thing. The view from our hotel room at night on the 39th floor is much nicer than atop the CN Tower 1122 ft high, which approximately twice as high. It's good to stop and notice what's good about where we are on the way to where we're going. CN TowerOur Room#wponthego
Holiness
One of the qualities of a recognized saint is some or all of their bodies do not compose after their deaths the way most people's bodies do. Really though anyone who is heaven has the title of saint. From the Magnificat March 2015Vol. 16, No 13
Possibilities & Light
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read …
Possibility & Light 