Category: Philosophy

I have been contemplating the concept of “shadows” for sometime.  A thoughtful statement by a colleague and friend initiated this reflection as he suggested that the work of building community requires those doing the guiding to appear as shadows.  This reminded me of Scotland where oftentimes, my suggestion to those with whom I worked, was […]

It’s amazing that at a point in time in human history, when people are supposedly most learned, sophisticated and advanced, life is so expendable.  I say life because most everything in life to day is disposable.  A society has been created whereby things are acquired and disposed with little regard for the nature of their […]

Where am I It is a Sunday morning in January and I am in the Magdelin Islands and decide I need a walk to clear my mind.  The walk stimulates my thoughts to all that has changed in my life in the past six months and since I left Newfoundland some ten years ago. My […]

I have been giving a lot of thought of late to truth and its impact on one’s life.  Truth is such a nebulous concept with different meaning for different people, different contexts for different events, and different realities for anyone who even contemplates its meaning. My own concept of what’s true is being tried and […]

It is interesting to reflect on life and its many phases.  It appears as if a person in moving through these phases experience a sense of newness, apprehension, familiarity and comfort and eventually through to a place of both impasse and no return.  It seems that it is only when one reaches this stage that […]

As I am reading the Globe and Mail on the 29th of January I am struck by two articles about Newfoundland.  A feeling, which may be akin to nostalgia appears, a feeling enhanced by a large dose of Newfoundland through movies, books and old acquaintances which all have appeared over the past few months.  I […]

I sat with a group today over lunch and the topic of peace arose and it caused me to ponder – what indeed is peace.  I have found little of it my life as it appears that there is this restlessness that appears each time as I get to a “place” in life where perhaps […]

I haven’t written in a while, in fact it’s probably the longest time in years that I haven’t had reflective thoughts or should I say none that pushed me to put them to paper.  Yet, I do feel the need to write, to contemplate and to reflect.  I feel a nervous agitation within myself that […]

I have been giving a lot of thought lately to “Home”.  Why, I’m not sure.  Perhaps it is because of the transient nature that my life has had for the past number of years.  Maybe it is because of the number of places in which I have lived – each having to become home.  Then, […]