Becoming Human

This is a great web site. Loads of info. Great for any kids and adults. Great insights into humans.

Looking forward to looking at it more when I get home:

http://www.becominghuman.org/

(Blackberry)

Burgess Shale and Tao

500 million years of evolution tells us it is because it is. There is not master plan. We are here not bacause have better or chosen we are just the lucky ones or the fact is someone was going to be here.

Confusius, buddha and Lao-tse are Wrong. It's simple. Life is not naturally sour or bitter or out of step with anything, suffering is not required to reach any place.

There are no rules to be learned..... it just is..

(Blackberry)

Banff Sightseeing

Lots of places do tours. Try www.banfftours.com seems to have a good range
of heli hiking and wildlife tours.

(Blackberry)

New experiences from the summit

New words for new experiences

Being Australian,
New words and new meanings - avalanche, glacier, snow, chipmunk, glacier
flour, springback....

Being new the words are repeated almost without regard for a meaning, or
searching for assimilation. Learning seems to look same for everyone.

The views.

Wow these mountains are awesome. Feels like Switzerland up here. The looks
on the faces are almost better. People are excited and scared, helping each
other, pulling together, Japanese, England and German sharing the
experience.

I am in a trance, if I concentrate I can touch the mountains the other side, I am
floating and falling and swimming. The place is cool..........

(Blackberry)

Banff Stuff

Local news paper:
http://www.banffcragandcanyon.com/ - ok this site is not great, just looked at it properly

Current some paths are closed due to bear action (min of 6 people to travel together)

More to follow...

Rain Rain Rain Part deux

Keats:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?


The following worries me, have not figured out why yet, it might be the first symptom is one that I am exhibiting :

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you areliving. Then you read a book(Lady chatterleys lover, for instance), or you take atrip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living,that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable:first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerousand might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. Itappears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions livelike this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. Theydrive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And thensome shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakensthem and saves them from death." Winter, 1931-1932 from The Diary of AnaןsNin, Volume One 1931-1934

Buddha for a day

Each of us is a god.
Each of us knows all.
We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

(Blackberry)

White not

White noise; White water boiling; White mist rising; White clouds enclosing; White Mountain tops; While lines curving; White horses riding; White paper falling; White noise; Wide Eyed.

(Blackberry)

What a wonderful world

Ok its true there mountains are amazing, after the rain yesterday to see
them today for the first time in the sun.......

Not in particular:
1. Grass carpet under the trees.
2, The wide wild valley floor.
3. The vivid colours of greens
4. Hard core bikers with digital camera's - and mothers too I am reminded.
5. Tour guides passionate about ice climbing, loving one thing so completely
and the deep deep blue of glacier.
6. The varstness of the ice and ice field.
7. The park ranger that was so happy they seemed drunk.
8. The mossy ways.
9. The sharp peeks.
10. Champagne at chateau lake Louise andthe postcard views.
11. Fudge making, warm and sweet and pure
12. The stags, with their velvet symbols of there own meaning and purpose.
No self doubt here.
13. The clean cold air and fresh mountain streams.
14. Honeymooners feeding each other chocolate fondu lunch.
15. Garbage bins that aren't just bear proof.
16. Soft toys.
17. Coincidences.
18. Seeing "slow nerve action" in banff (see earlier bog)
19. Open, simply and pure

(Blackberry)

Day 2 Ice Fields

Rain, Rain, Rain ..... hum

Wow this glacier water is crazy.... I feel like I am in a black and white photo, and some one painted the water in an amazing blue.....

Jasper seems like a really great little town, it would be great to spend more time here, perhaps a month or so.....

wildlife count.... 2 squirrals, 4 goats (2 kids), lots of wild poop.....

Missing you (Airport experiences)

At the airport for an hour, I heard "I missed you" about 20 times as people greeted returning partners or friends. Some appeared less enthusiastic than others, some decidedly and opening passionate. Why the difference, does that mean anything?

Began to wonder what " missed you" really means. How do we miss each other, are we missing the person, the interaction, the feeling, the touch, the companionship, the sex? Is it familiarity or something more? What is the physiology of missing one?

Random thoughts for the day

Enjoy the things we do and do the things we enjoy - what is the difference? Is there a difference? Is this a choice? Why do we enjoy things anyway?

Why do we take picture? Moments to experience and moments reflect. All around me are people who appear to be experiencing only through the moment not the experience.

Hummm.

(Blackberry)

Day 1 alberta adventure

Arrived in calgery surprisingly without incident.

In the next 3 hours managered to go to the wrong car rental company and
arrive at the wrong hotel.

The hotel we actually booked turned out to be much better. This is, if I had
planned on being kept awake by the signs from the 24 hour adult video store.
At least thire will be something to eat from the 24 hour Denny's. Tomorrow
off to jasper...

Still did meet a guy who was very excited about a band playing at the
canmore hotel tonite. Apparently "slow nerve action" are from BC and really
great. I would go but for the a rare family responcibility tonite.

Quote for the day:
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger, Comedy is when YOU walk into an open
sewer and die" - mel brooks. Not a big mel brooks fan, but this not bad -
comedy, like so many things has a close cousin - in the case of comedy it is
sadness.

Calgery has not really impressed so far, sure the people are friendly but
how far can you trust friendly people? Seems like there there is certain
amount of activity in the market town grow up.

(Blackberry)

Adult Entertainment - 2nd play

Second of 7 plays by George F Walker

Same Set - the Hotel Room, different time, or the same time period perhaps it is not clear.

Somewhere along the road to get lost, you are aren't sure where and when you think about it you cannot remember the last few miles anyway, actually it has been a while, the can't remember when you last remembered. This is the first time you have traveled the road.

Your intensions where always good, but somehow life became a series of transactions with self loathing and self destruction becoming common place.

Again well acted and thought provoking play. 4 out 5. Run at factory throatier, Toronto, now finished.

Today's misquote

Dream life like you are going to live forever
Live life like this is your last day

HERE COMES THE SUN - get your old records out

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
And I say it’s all right

Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it’s all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it’s all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been clear

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
And I say it’s all right
It’s all right

Saturday - Hum Hum

DON'T WANT TO BE PASSANGER IN LIFE

Try this -

The Born Free Foundation is an international wildlife charity working with compassion to

• prevent cruelty,
• alleviate suffering and
• encourage everyone to treat all individual animals with respect.

Born Free believes wildlife belongs in the wild and is dedicated to the conservation of rare species in their natural habitat, and the phasing out of traditional zoos.

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/index.shtml

Toronto Short Film Festival - Part Deux

Celebrity Short's Program - what a great couple of hours -


Keep Right - Public enemy #1 (Ewen Bremner - "Trainspotting") and his arch-rival, (Lance Henriksen - "Aliens") up the ante in this high stakes game of cat and mouse. Complete with cars and guns, a Scottish accent, existentialist ambiguity and a green dumpster.

The Little Things - After a failed suicide attempt, Claire (Alisen Down - "Da Vinci's Inquest") has nothing better to do than go to work. During a cigarette break, she meets Simon (Ioan Gruffud - "King Arthur"; "Horatio Hornblower"), a man with a few issues of his own.

Milo 55160 - Heaven's loneliest bureaucrat Milo, played by Patrick McKenna ("Traders"; "The Red Green Show"), meets Will, a boy who is struggling to stay alive on earth. When Will disappears, Milo embarks on a journey through the afterlife that changes him forever.

Spelling Bee - Charlie Sheen is a guest judge at the Spelling Bee to end them all, in this riotous send-up of the high stakes and high pressure world of words. Can you spell i-n-a-p-p-r-o-p-r-i-a-t-e?

Pigeon - WWII is raging and a train offers one man his final chance to escape the certain horrors that await him. Based on a true story, Michael Lerner ("Barton Fink") and Canadian treasure Wendy Crewson ("Sex Traffic", "What Lies Beneath") star in this emotionally affecting film.

Notting Hill Anxiety Festival - Charlotte (Julie Delpy - "Before Sunset"; "Waking Life"), a beautiful young woman who appears to have everything, is contemplating leaving it all behind in this fanciful fairytale.

News for the Church - Andrew McCarthy directs this powerful tale of hypocrisy and misfortune, as a boy and a young woman (Nora-Jane Noone - "The Magdalene Sisters") living in a small village both struggle to maintain their dignity, only to meet with shocking results. Based on a short story by acclaimed Irish writer Frank O'Conner.

Why Blog?

Here is one reason why -

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."

Anais Nin - http://www.anaisnin.com/booktastings/index.html


Others?

Brave and Free

This guy is great - bringing humour to the world

http://dailydancer.com/

Click the photo a few pages down for the video clips

Toronto short film festival

The best short films are like poems, the are short, concentrated with a single powerful well expressed memorable theme.

The gala performance included:

1. Sons of war - humour helps in all situations to pass the time and make a situation tolerable
2. Rain is falling - beautifully shot, conveying the loneliness, poverty and love
3. Home game - Great comical observation of an everyday task, most of us are familiar with - what a great imagination these guys have
4. Birthday boy - innocent, sad, renewal, cycle,
5. Fluent dysphasia - what does happen when you are speaking a different language?
6. Milk- mother and grand daughter making everyday fun and mysterious, what could get better than that
7. Ryan - wow this animation is crazy - amazing visuals and nice story

(Blackberry)

Looking for something to fill your soul?

This might do it:
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/rf.html

Try looking at this and not smiling

What a great idea.

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_concerts_events/050606_1184.shtml

This idea shows a great sense of humour and humanity. I Love it.

Jamie Lee comfort

Jamie Kennedy Vs Susur's Lee's

After several trips to Lees and going on for 20 trips to Jamie's I feel ready to compare. (Mostly recently was Lees on Thursday)

Overall I am a huge convert to the genre. Social sharing of food is at the very heart of who and why we are. Sharing the small concentrated favour parcels both these places serve is a culinary delight, a personal connection and no blotted feeling later!

Pros for Lees

Great bar area - the only place to site if there is 2 of you is at the back row of the bar.
The food in excellent, tasty and generally light and from what I can tell consistent.

Pros about Jamies

The bar
The wine (extraordinary wines)
The people (always friendly/chatty/professional service)
The menu turnover. When you go as often as me you need new things to try.

Overall I am hoping both these places are a sign the Toronto is slowly becoming cosmopolitan as well as the multicultural we always here about.

Now summer is here both places really need a patio.

(Wireless Cottage report on the city)

(Blackberry)

The end of civilization

Phew.

I always knew that the veneer we have become used to calling
civilization was thin.

This play (Currently at the factory threatre - but not for long) does just a great job of exploring who we are and what we can and
will do in a given situation. How we can live with ourselves and the rules
by which we live.

On the way the acting is really first rate.

The overall experience is humorous, thoughtful, provocative.

4 stars out of 5

(Blackberry)

A New Day - A New Song

Wild Horses - by U2

You're dangerous, 'cause you're honest
You're dangerous - you don't know what you want
Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot
For any spirit to haunt
Hey hey, sha-la-la, hey hey

You're an accident waiting to happen
You're a piece of glass left there on the beach
Well you tell me things I know you're not supposed to
Then you leave me just out of reach

Hey hey, sha-la-la
Hey hey, sha-la-la
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?

Well you stole it, 'cause I needed the cash
And you killed it, 'cause I wanted revenge
Well you lied to me, 'cause I asked you to
Baby, can we still be friends?

Hey, hey, sha-la-la
Hey, hey, sha-la-la
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?

Ah, the deeper I spin
Ah, the hunter will sin for your ivory skin
Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees, the river laughing at you and me
Hallelujah, heaven's white rose
The doors you open I just can't close

Don't turn around - don't turn around again
Don't turn around - your gypsy heart

Don't turn around - don't turn around again
Don't turn around and don't look back
Come on now, love - don't you look back

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna taste your salt water kisses?
Who's gonna take the place of me?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

WOW

Finally home.

What a long and great day today. I think some things clicked for me.

Time to grow, make changes perhaps, and move on

Visualization

This is really Cool -

http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

I wish I to come up with cool way to look at data - like this

Wireless Cottage Weekend Update

2 amazing hot days, highlights include:

First swim of the season - wow the water is warm for early June.

Fell asleep floating off the dock.

First canoe of the season, just a short trip across the lake, and a little
late in the day to be really relaxing, with all the fishing boats.

The fish seem to out in greater numbers than last year, several sizeable
bass came by.

Dinner at Shangri-la marine - by boat of course - great ribs.

Osprey fish catch right in front of us. Neat to see the bird slowly carry
off the fish, carried length ways to improve the aerodynamics.

Harriet heron eat well also.

More swimming and playing around on the kayak on Sunday. (Almost fell into off the rocks - having drunk to much - make note - less drink before swimming)

Red skin - wow it is hot.

Managed to almost sink the boat by leaving the plug out. Why boats have plugs I am not sure, but leaving them out is bad.

Made good progress on angels and demons.

Drunk homemade raspberry/blackberry vodka with lillet and lime juice. Great way to end a long hot lazy day.

Smoked some chicken - dinner in the week ahead

And so .............A great weekend.

(Blackberry)