Retrospect: the mansion
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions the mansion. Back in the Annapolis Valley, I didn’t live on the base; we lived in a village near it. Many of the local kids had lived there all …
Category: retrospect
Retrospect: “super pills”
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects… When I moved to the base on PEI in summer ’76, it started out really fun. As I’ve hinted elsewhere, the air slowly escaped from the balloon, but it …
Philosophy, retrospect: the end of wonder
Self-tutoring about people, events, and ideas of the past: the tutor reflects… On a beautiful summer day such as today has been, I often spin back into the past: how did I spend such days when I was a kid? …
Retrospect: when you don’t go back, part0
Self-tutoring about life transitions: the tutor reflects. With school recently ending for another year, many people won’t return to that one. They might’ve graduated from high school, for instance, so will proceed to college. Perhaps they just finished grade 5, …
Retrospect: Chris
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions one from his childhood. I’ve reported, in other posts, on people who’ve entered my orbit periodically during specific intervals of my life. Often they were connected to a place …
Retrospect and philosophy: Canada Day, 2021
Self-tutoring about being Canadian: the tutor reflects…. In light of recent discoveries of graves, Canadians might well be more careful about how we view our country. We’ve always been known for being more or less innocent, especially compared with others. …
Retrospect: tent trailers
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects… Today, in conversation, my wife mentioned a tent trailer. I haven’t heard the term in decades, nor can recall seeing one in that same span. Believe it or not, …
Retrospect: High Performance
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects… There I was, alone in the living room on a Wednesday night in March, 1983. Wandering among the channels, I encountered a show called High Performance. I’d not heard …
Retrospect: Jones, Smith, and God, part II
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor continues about Jones, Smith, and God. (continuing from yesterday’s post): Perhaps what ignited the ongoing debate about God between Jones and Smith was a call-in show that had appeared. A …
Retrospect: Jones and Smith, and God(?)
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions two he well remembers…. They weren’t really called Jones and Smith. Albeit with different names, however, these were real people – as real as I was. We were all …