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Political Confession
Mar. 30th, 2025 10:24 pmI am a mediocrity.
There. I said it.
What's next?
There. I said it.
What's next?
A Confession About Politics
Jul. 20th, 2022 09:19 pmI am political, because I am not suicidal. Also, because I'd rather not have to be homicidal either.
I just deleted an entry, and the Flickr image file linked to it because I was misreading the screen display on my cleverphone when I originally wrote the entry. Those accented characters I thought I saw didn't actually exist. The phone screen was just pushing the apostrophes right up against the letters in question.
My dumb.
My dumb.
Speaking of Labour Day Sins
Sep. 3rd, 2018 04:47 pmMine today: I didn't go to the parade today. I was expecting a visit from relatives of mine, but that fell through. As a consequence, I went shopping for newspapers and magazines in the Market instead.
Part of the reason that it bothers me is that I've made a specific point of attending the parade, walking the route, camera at hand over the past decade or so. Some of you may have seen the photos I've uploaded of past Ottawa Labour Day parades on my Flickr account (dwight_ew, if you decide to go looking). It's gotten more exhausting as each year goes by, and when said relatives expressed an interest in visiting me today, I took the opportunity accidentally implied.
My temptation, my flaw.
Part of the reason that it bothers me is that I've made a specific point of attending the parade, walking the route, camera at hand over the past decade or so. Some of you may have seen the photos I've uploaded of past Ottawa Labour Day parades on my Flickr account (dwight_ew, if you decide to go looking). It's gotten more exhausting as each year goes by, and when said relatives expressed an interest in visiting me today, I took the opportunity accidentally implied.
My temptation, my flaw.
Resonance: Comics and Music
Feb. 14th, 2015 09:03 pmReading Astro City # 20 and listening to Stars' "Trap Door".
The resonance of themes in those two works of art is scary in my mind at the moment.
"He told me he was young, I said "well what is that good for?"
Nobody stays that way..."
The resonance of themes in those two works of art is scary in my mind at the moment.
"He told me he was young, I said "well what is that good for?"
Nobody stays that way..."
A confession about Remembrance 2011
Nov. 13th, 2011 11:54 amI walked out in the middle of the first sermon, and headed for the Peacekeepers' Monument.
And I NEVER walk out in mid-sermon at these things.
Not in some twenty-odd years. I've occasionally stayed home, either due to illness or other obligations, but when I go the service at the War Memorial?
This was a first for me.
I am told by friends of mine who stayed that Rabbi Bulka got things back on something resembling an even keel, and if that's so, then I am very much a heel for my fit of...anger and guilt all bundled up in one package.
It could be argued by at least one of my friendlisters here at LJ that the first sermon was just a little too much of the sort you might expect to hear in 1914 or 1915, just as our role in World War One was kicking into gear.
I'm not sure if that wouldn't amount to mere excuse-making on my part, though.
And I NEVER walk out in mid-sermon at these things.
Not in some twenty-odd years. I've occasionally stayed home, either due to illness or other obligations, but when I go the service at the War Memorial?
This was a first for me.
I am told by friends of mine who stayed that Rabbi Bulka got things back on something resembling an even keel, and if that's so, then I am very much a heel for my fit of...anger and guilt all bundled up in one package.
It could be argued by at least one of my friendlisters here at LJ that the first sermon was just a little too much of the sort you might expect to hear in 1914 or 1915, just as our role in World War One was kicking into gear.
I'm not sure if that wouldn't amount to mere excuse-making on my part, though.
