On Sovereignty & Time

On Sovereignty & Time

These past couple of years, when most of us have experienced a reality shaped almost entirely by a global pandemic that has taken millions of human and non-human lives, we’ve been directly confronted with our relationship with Time. For some of us, Time has stretched...
Memento Mori

Memento Mori

When I first moved to Canada, nearly half a century ago, I lived in a small, lakeside community of (mostly) holiday homes. Across the lake from my house were the jagged brown teeth of a row of cliffs, locally known as Rattlesnake Ridge. This was sagebrush country,...
On Dignity

On Dignity

Dignity. It’s one of those words that’s fallen out of fashion; it sounds somewhat stuffy, full of itself, as though it wears an un-ironic bow-tie and plaid sports coat to sit down to breakfast each morning. And yet, nothing’s further from the truth. Dignity is the...