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Different Cultures, Different Kinds of Happiness
In Christian languages, happiness gets a less honorable reputation than joy and well-being. But life would hardly be worth living if there weren’t moments of happiness along the way. A universal framework for well-being is far from universal. Here are four models to help clarify your own understanding of happiness and a bit of the… Continue reading
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Value of Leisure
. We yearn to “make the most of” our free time, so we are constantly giving our evenings, weekends, and vacations over to our self-advancement. Labor-market precarity and the growth of the gig economy have sharpened these incentives. Pure leisure now feels like pure indulgence – as if we are gluttons. Continue reading
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6 Leadership Tips for Effective Business Writing.
I have particularly noted the number of people who use English as an additional language (EAL) with whom I interact for almost all my business outside the house. In the last month, I dealt with people from Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines, China, Nigeria, Hungary, and many more. They helped me deal with essential services… Continue reading
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The Nitty-Gritty on Compare-and-Contrast Essays
The first in a series on essay writing and types! Continue reading
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Carried by a White Cloud: Being Christian this Canada Day
Cathy Whitecloud carried me when I was a baby. Continue reading
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A Corporate Agenda Part 4: 1958
Technocratic rationality, then, needs to be recognized as a feature of mass society and as a systemic threat to our freedom, and its oligarchic substitution of a human artifice for a real-world with unmarked graves; the original sin of assuming that man is the measure of all things, makes its appearance there. It makes its… Continue reading
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The Corporate Agenda Part 3: The Failure of Technocratic Rationality in Peacebuilding
…quietly observing what the conflict is doing to you before you can ponder the opposite, what you might do to it. Rather than be active, you have to slow down and see what moves in and around you. ‘A lot of it is about listening,’ says Herbert, ‘listening to people, but also listening to yourself… Continue reading
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Ordered to be Free: a Meditation Learning
“The self exists in the same way as a border between countries, i.e. as a social institution. Both are imaginary boundaries that have a certain pragmatic convenience to them.” Continue reading
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A Corporate Agenda Part 2: NBA’s Ugly Fans – Barriers Erected and Removed
If barriers go up between the fans and the players, and the coverage becomes more empathetic, then the arena of basketball will happen in the media, and not in the stadium. Continue reading
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A Corporate Agenda, Part 1: Tyrannical Time
“…experiences of inequality are built-in to the human artifice and are not merely happenings of our experience, but constitutive features of it – a mechanics very similar to corruption.” Continue reading
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 