What I Did for Love — A Fable About Dental Health Marc Chagall, 1929 Our two pigeons may be reunited, but here is a glimpse of the darker side of how far astray we might go in Love when under Folly’s spell, especially if the object of our desire is part of the in crowd and we are not. Sevigné, whose attributes serve as a model to the Graces and in whom all that is beautiful flourishes; in your indifference, might you be favorably inclined toward the innocent game of a fable? Might I, without annoying you, offer this tale of a Lion beaten by Love? Love is a strange master. Happy are those who may know it only by the telling and not by its…

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Some months ago a friend was telling me about his new love, who lived in another country. He wanted to marry her, to have children with her, but at the same time, he didn’t want to lose the freedom he had to travel as and when he liked. He asked me if there was a fable, which could light his way. Two pigeons shared a tender love, but one, feeling a little bored at home, was crazy enough to want to undertake a voyage to a distant country. The other one said: What are you going to do? Do you really want to leave your dear friend? Absence is the greatest heartache. Not for you, of course, so cruel. But maybe the…

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Admiring the Total Eclipse of the Super Blue Blood Moon Last week, I set my alarm for 4:45 a.m. to have a look at the total eclipse of the super blue blood moon. I was tempted to put that expression in all-caps, it sounds so dramatic. And I was tempted not to set the alarm, because I was skeptical of the amazingness in store for me. Maybe that was because I’m Canadian, a culture not prone to overstatement. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in its understated way, is less promotional in its lunar eclipse materials, staying away from the term supermoon, which entered US galactic promo lingo when it was coined by American astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. The alarm startled me from…

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Money may make the world go ‘round, but we should not conflate that with authenticity or integrity. Our world mistakes profits for progress, and making money has replaced making things of value. Greed is good again. Politicians and business leaders, the priests of our age, size us up for our market potential. While we are currently in a worsening cycle, greed is hardly new, as this 17th century fable reminds us. A dead man went on his slow way to take possession of his final resting place. A priest went on his merry way to bury the dead man as quickly as possible. Our corpse was in a carriage, well and duly packaged. Dressed in the robes, alas! Robes of winter, robes…

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Instead of Tariffs, Let The Sun Do Its Work Gustave Dore, 1868 Watching the fierce sun melt snow off my windows and roof before it is even 8 a.m. got me thinking about solar power. Yes, I’m a renewable energy type. And Trump’s new tariffs on solar panels are bad news on that front. A woodcutter had broken or lost the wooden hilt of his axe. The loss could not be immediately repaired. So the forest had a period of respite. Finally, the man begged the forest, with humility, to let him ever so gently take one single branch to refashion a hilt. He would go elsewhere to make his living. He would leave so many oaks and so many pines standing; those trees…

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In the latest installment of the long running drama that is our perennial love affair with covert operations, an ex-CIA agent is accused of…

USA Gymnastics has been turned upside down these past few weeks and an avalanche of secrets has been shaken out of its pockets.

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For a lot of women, going to work, going out on a date and even going home may feel like the sheep lying down with the lion, and not in…

In case ground zero humanity and common decency are not enough reason to behave well toward others, here’s another reason.