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confined to cyberspace which makes blogging as melancholic and illusionary as don quixote tilting at windmills the author says well i must confess labouring hack writer that i am i am impressed by such literary allusions as don quixote and finding it necessary to mention the tilting at windmills cliché just to make sure everybody gets his drift but metaphors notwithstanding i am more impressed by those who make sweeping generalizations about not only their findings but about those whom they might choose to indict or maybe we my friends are just failures as bloggers i haven t noticed a great impulse among my friends here to carry out a lot of rebelling against mainstream society oh we may be pissed off about certain things and probably should be pissed off about much more but i have yet to notice any cry of aux barricades or even slight suggestions that blood should be flowing in the streets i guess some of us aren t with the program that prof keren suggests we are oh and not to be outdone by his don quixote reference keren adds i suspect to show how hip he is a reference to father mckenzie in the 40 year old beatles song eleanor rigby who is writing a sermon nobody is going to hear some of us bloggers are going to be embraced by the mainstream media but the majority of us remain in the dark remain in the loneliness says keren oh woe not just loneliness but ignorant and dark loneliness ok come clean how many of you when you got the impulse to blog foresaw a pulitzer around the corner or maybe a desk job at newsweek no me either so why do you write your blog i write mine because i really enjoy doing so it gives me a space in which to express myself and to hope that others find some tiny germ of truth in what i write i also write it because i am a professional writer and blogging is like callisthenics it warms me up for my day and finally i write it because it has allowed me to connect in a very pleasing way with people from throughout north america and the world in general i like my blogging friends and have made some valued associations here and i like my real friends i have also met some of my blogging friends in real time and found that i didn t notice a huge disparity between who they are as breathing human beings and what they present themselves as being on their blogs at the end of it all however i d like to be an academic if you are an academic you can make relatively unfounded assertions disparage a good section of the populace and still bring home nice bucks on the other hand i bet those calgary winters are cold and lonely maybe prof keren should try blogging share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading 5 comments posted in uncategorized what a drag it is getting old posted on january 23 2017 4 comments i don t like to whine truly i don t don t believe everything my wife tells you but right now i think i am entitled to a plaint on friday i went to see my sawbones to address once again a condition i have been distressed about for two plus years in essence my walking ability has become hugely compromised now i love to walk and if i have a pup in tow so much the better of late those perambulations have become truly challenging wendy first noticed a couple of years ago that i was dragging my left foot a bit well it all sort of went downhill from there in the meantime i have had virtually every test know to medical science mri ct scan inner ear scan and so forth i have also taken physiotherapy programs and for a lazy bugger like me that must mean something ain t right meanwhile my walking continued to deteriorate added to which i developed a propensity for falling like those old tv ads i ve fallen and i can t get up they are no longer amusing because it s true i have bruises on my knees to attest to my reality and frankly it scares the shit out of me it scares wendy too because what if i go down when she s not here i just have to make sure i don t meanwhile simple procedures become challenging a couple of weeks ago i slipped getting out of the shower to thwart my fall i grabbed the shower curtain that didn t work for shit the whole thing came down and i whacked the back of my neck on the edge of the tub i have since learned to not be blase about any task and that helps considerably anyway my condition has a name it is vascular parkinsonism not the same as parkinson s disease and it is not progressive in the same way blessedly it stems from a series of small strokes i have had since 2008 will it get better that remains to be seen the ailment has a tendency to plateau at times in which the symptoms can abate somewhat though they don t go away it won t kill me and it could be something much worse but i don t like to faw down and go boom can you blame me thanks for your tolerance for this intensely personal blog share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading 4 comments posted in uncategorized hey you get offa my cloud posted on january 18 2017 1 comment s igmund freud postulated that the primary motivating force behind humankind was sex many who followed him in the realms of theoretical shrinkdom disagreed except for those that agreed i though not a psychoanalytical theorist would like to agree with freud his idea makes life seem more raffish more fun and frolicsome but i m afraid i have to cast my lot with those who think otherwise i believe territory is considerably more significant to human beings than sex much as i hate to admit it indeed territory rules for virtually every creature that walks runs flies or swims an example of the power of territory robert ardrey explained the whole territorial imperative thing better than i can or the negative impact on human nature by lack of turf can be found i think in the decline and fall of communism worldwide except in the cases of a couple of badly functioning enclaves communism was in fact doomed from the moment karl marx arrived at the theory because he chose not to factor in territory his dialectic deemed we would move beyond that stage under communism his dialectic was in that context and many others bullshit what marx failed to take into account was the fact we humans don t really want to share we rich and poor alike want our own and we don t want anybody else feeling entitled to get their hands on that which is ours if you are doubtful about whether human beings take territory seriously i think warfare probably answers that question we pay lip service about wars being fought over philosophies creeds and even wealth or lack thereof but mainly they are fought over territory we want what you have oh yes the natural resources will help us too but mainly we want to encroach on your place ethnic bigotry is based on territory those people don t look like us act like us eat like us worship like us even screw like us therefore they are bad and we don t want them in our bailiwick why are they on my turf why are they in my neighborhood deservedly disdained racial profiling a cheap shot excuse for bigotry in a stressful time in history is all about territory the bottom line is we don t want them ay rabs here territorialism is a visceral thing if your home has been broken into it goes straight to the guts you feel you have been physically kicked violated if one of your nearest and dearest has been in any way assaulted your impulse in the direction of homicide is understandable indeed an opposite response would be questionable so strong is your territorial imperative you have been in my home you bastards i want to kill you for that none of this has anything to do with the fact that your dvd or laptop has been lifted it is the realization that somebody uninvited has been in your home your bastion of safety when i was in my teens my father s car was stolen from his place of work in vancouver a few weeks later they caught the little creep and his teenaged girlfriend in las vegas and found the car dusty and dirty but not too much the worse for wear however the car had also been the love nest for the horny young runaways when he got it back the old man had it thoroughly detailed and got it back spotless literally and figuratively but my mother was never again comfortable riding in what had been my dad s first brand new car you see somebody had used mother s territory uninvited in a manner that was to her despicable indeed the hideousness of rape lies not so much in the brutality of the act which indeed is unspeakable but primarily in the ultimate violation of territory the body is the victim s ultimate and absolute territory what could we claim as more of our own than our very being territory can be violated in other less dramatic ways but the end result can be distressing nevertheless in my case that sense came about when i last visited my childhood community a few years ago i mention that it was a few years ago because i have never really had a desire to back that s because they took it away from me they wiped a chunk of my legacy territory from the map metaphorically at least i grew up in the vancouver suburb of burnaby the burnaby of my recall in my little corner of that world was a rural enclave a refreshing haven from the larger centres in the area around deer lake there were still small farms wildlife in the manner of raccoons deer and even the odd bear roads were gravel mucky in the winter and dusty in the summer access to vancouver in terms of transit was limited burnaby today is an urban jungle to my way of thinking i do not recognize it and at some inner level of despair resent the fact that it has been changed so radically territoriality is violated when that which was cherished is taken indirectly away the last time i spent any time there about a decade ago as i was waiting in a mass of traffic at an intersection that was once bordered by forest rather than high rises i fumed xenophobically who the hell are these people all around me i don t know any of them they didn t live here when i did why are they here where did they come from this is my town not theirs they are interlopers i want my burnaby back my old school douglas road elementary is still there but the neighborhood is from an alien planet and was plunked down when i was away but then i thought i probably look a little different too but the point lingered in my mind i once had a conversation with a friend who in middle age had visited the small ontario town in which he grew up he was delighted in the fact it was virtually unchanged i resented him for that why should he have his childhood turf intact while mine has all gone away back to freud in conclusion yes sex is mighty important thank god but in its essence even sex is territorial that is why we have the emotion of jealousy and why adultery causes fits of consternation in most circles not so much because it s sinful the sinful nature is a matter for individual beliefs but because it means somebody else is rooting around in another s turf anyway it might have been well to have asked old sigmund after he fled austria to escape the nazi boots tromping through vienna following the anschluss whether he was thinking more about sex or territory knowing him it was probably sex share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading 1 comment posted in uncategorized which moments turned your lives around for keeps posted on january 11 2017 3 comments when he wasn t obsessing in a fetishistic and creepy manner about his wife nora or writing the virtually incomprehensible ulysses irish writer james joyce invented a literary device known as epiphany that was very clever of him because it is a device that transfers profoundly to real life epiphany comes first and foremost as a christian reference in that the day of the calendar is the day that christ s divinity was revealed to those at the time who might have been hankering for such a thing in a literary sense it means in barest essence an incident or a time in which after a momentous change has taken place we can never go back to what life was like before in that sense it certainly applies to the christ connection but it also applies to some of those events that have transformed you and the world not always in a good way i might add in a recent poll taken in britain it was found that the three most traumatizing events in the modern era were in descending order 9 11 the death of princess diana and the assassination of john kennedy those were the kinds of events in which those who lived through them will not only remember the events with huge clarity they will also remember the circumstances around first hearing the news that is if a person first became aware of the 9 11 horrors shortly after breakfast time they also would be inclined to remember what they had at breakfast that day and maybe even what they were wearing it s understandable by the way that the kennedy assassination should be at third place mainly because to have been aware of its actuality a person would now have to be in his or her late 40s to have had comprehension of the magnitude of nov 22 1963 as for diana i remember i got a late night phone call from a lady friend in toronto who told me the news of the trade center incident i can recall exactly what transpired wendy and i were in the cook islands and we d gone in early in the morning to a little shop in avarua rarotonga to order some custom embroidered sweatshirts we gave our order and the guy an australian told us to come back in an hour to pick them up when we returned he ushered us into the cluttered back office of the shop look at this he said pointing to the computer screen i couldn t make it out at first and was wondering why he wanted to show us a picture of an airplane crashing into a skyscraper then he explained what had happened to say we were aghast would be to state the case mildly and as we all know from that day on the world changed not just a little bit but monumentally and which is most important in the case of epiphany we can never go back all about us has changed and we as individuals have been transfigured and transformed it s a natural impulse to long for a return to normality it will never transpire we suffer from posttraumatic shock and then we go through the stages of grief and then we realize we will always be slightly diminished by that moment of epiphany of course we as human beings have our personal moments of epiphany and they aren t lesser events than the big cataclysmic ones but possibly greater because they shatter us within our own domains i can remember after my abrupt separation from my second wife awakening in a state of shock and unreality for weeks afterwards filled with denial about what had happened and obsessively yearning to go back to just minutes before her uttering the words this isn t working for me any more so i want 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