Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:14AM Recently I have been thinking about slowing down. Of course, say my friends, you have reached retirement and so that is a legitimate proposition. But then, when I connect with some of my retired friends, one of their complaints I hear most often is that they are busier than ever
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 12:00PM When I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s on a mixed farm in Southern Manitoba I lived about as close to most of our family’s food supply as one can imagine. My mother’s large garden furnished all the vegetables we ate year round. Our meat came from the farm animals we butchered. Sometimes my father
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:00PM In 1972, long before anyone was thinking about climate change, when Hwy. 12 was two lanes and Hwy 52 was gravel, a very significant book was published. The Limits to Growth, written by four scientists said that growth is good – but within limits. As long as a child is a juvenile, growth is good, but once that child reaches maturity, continuing growth is a sign of illness. Ultimately continuing growth kills. Economic growth...