December 2019

Here I am by the Toronto waterfront. You can faintly see the CN tower out in the background, here in the west end. And just decided to go for a walk down by the waterside. There’s something about being by the water that makes me feel so refreshed. It’s like the simplicity of it. When […]

How we look at time is such a flexible thing. What does it mean to have our picture of time that we have in our minds? Of course, we’ve all heard the standard statement that nothing really exists but the present, and the past and the future are only in our imagination. To go to

Got a comment to my last video, about starting a change in life, that it depends on how much free will a person has, and the sense of being able to control their own lives. So this is a big topic: the idea of having will, having will to change our lives, our world, our

A lot of what I talk about in these daily videos is my steps, my day, what I’m working on today, what is catching my attention at this point in my journey. But what I really want to be able to bring out and talk about and to help people with is the very beginning

Earlier in the week I had some chances to work for long stretches of time, where I had nothing scheduled for the day, and I could just wake up, do a block of work, eat breakfast, do a block of work, exercise, have lunch, do a block of work, have dinner do a block of

So, welcome to my first outdoor video. Sometimes it’s important just to get some nature time. Now, this is not exactly the deep wilderness. This is High Park in the city of Toronto. There’s the sound of traffic in the background. Some people walking their dogs not too far away. But here I can be

One of those most basic self-development things is you set goals for yourself. That’s like everybody says that. Never registered for me. It never felt right for me to be setting precise goals about what I was intending to do. But now, looking back, I can’t really see a good reason for that. It seems

So here we are in December, I got a few Christmas lights up, and in this season it starts to feel like a runway into the new year. So the year is wrapping up, and I love the Christmas season. I love having this time to step out of the regular routine of the year

I got a request for a tour of my bookshelf, so for those who are interested, here is my home library. I always wanted floor-to-ceiling books, so I put together these four bookshelves, inherited or collected one way or another, and I was lucky in that these two bookshelves on top happened to just perfectly

So this is the kind of weather they call a wintry mix. Right around the freezing point, we got some snow, some freezing rain, some ice pellets, some sleet, every possible type of precipitation coming down right now, with some strong winds. They’re starting to taper off now. But yeah, this is what the day