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About jgold1

I am a retired professor living in a somewhat remote location near Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. I spend much of my time thinking and reading and writing about what it means to be human. I think that being aware or conscious means being a story creature. My story is made up of experience and how this is woven together is my identity. I story-make and therefore I am.

Fall Diary, Oct. 13th., Manitoulin

Today is mild by our standards but the breeze is cool and along with the damp and drizzle makes a fire necessary for warmth and solace. Brenda, dealing with an infection and the antibiotic drug for it, nevertheless wants to … Continue reading

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Canada: a story

The unrecoverable dispersal of natural resources wealth into the pockets of a few  super rich economic war lords, Dick Cheney, Warren Buffet, The owners of Esso etc., is no longer tolerable.  We as a country have been bought and sold … Continue reading

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Canada Coup

The takeover of Canada by the Oil Cartel, based in Alberta, strongly allied with the US Republican Party  becomes more clear every day.  The world’s richest corporations  do not want to govern and waste their time working hard to run … Continue reading

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The Mind

Occupy Wall St. must move to Occupy The Mind The mind is the last frontier for freedom. In the mind we can mount an effective opposition to tyranny be it in the streets, in the board rooms, in the market … Continue reading

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Lies

A lie is a story unrelated to the Experience of the teller. This does not mean that the experience of the story teller is to be understood as limited to personal, first hand encounters of events in real time.  Experience … Continue reading

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