We did not know how lucky we were with the good weather for the Lilac Festival last Sunday a week ago! It has been rain and cold weather for almost all of the past week.

But, I’m still planning to go on my trip, if my legs behaviour and its advisor do not make claims to the contrary. And tonight Shirley and I will see each other at the movies for our monthly cultural event. I think the show is called ‘You’re all Mine’. That is not Shirley and I talking about each other though :).

I made good progress with my mandala colouring and kind of see the completion around the corner if I stain far enough! What is not gelling is the description and title for my upcoming talk, more about this under ‘writings’.

Last Friday Rene came by to get my bike which I have not used for years and he also took my lamp shade, as well as my small flat computer screen, for him to sell. The lamp fixture - swag type - is one of a pair, purchased from one of my early pay checks at Ryerson Polytech then in Toronto. Ina, my former wife and I just fell in love with these shades back in 1969 or so, when we lived on 108 Wellesley Street East in its only two bed room unit, with our two sons.

So, it was a parting for me, but fortunately Rene’s sister liked it, which was solace to me, so I gave it to her on account of all she does for her brother. The bike too had some history, as I bought it from Heather - a flame of Derrick’s at one time - when she was leaving Calgary around 1995. Then in 1999, I gave it to my now former wife Ina, who gave is back to Heather some years later and when I returned to Calgary in the Spring of 2003, Derrick arranged for me to get the bike back again! It was used for the last time when my Stijn and Teis were over in April/ May of last year.

At times you just have to wait for your emotions to arrive at the point where your good sense knows you have to go!

And on Sunday I dropped off a bag of old sheets and towels for Edward, who can use them in his painting enterprise. It was a long intended cleaning and letting go that had become stuck, but now has been completed. At times you just have to wait for your emotions to arrive at the point where your good sense knows you have to go! How is that for a nice description of procrastination? And with this it seems to be a good point to close off my dairy; quitting while I’m ahead! <9:45am.

P.S: On Saturday last, I also shopped at DJ’s for my produce and bought some mangos and peeled one for Sharen, who I visited in the afternoon. She is ok, but conversation was trying. Her room mate now went to a private room, but Sharen was mixed up about that and thought she had left the facility altogether. Yet, at other times she can still be quick to the draw at her 100+!

10:20am>continuing.

My original and intended title was ‘My Belief Framework’, but I am finding this too passive. That is, there is no charge in it, while I keep feeling that I have to make a statement at this time that says: ‘This way forward for our Global society’, not as total solution, but as a contribution.

And the solution of my finding a satisfactory wording may just be in the ‘contribution’, since all and every belief framework makes a contribution to a new wholeness in diversity. In the past of human history, each framework has considered itself to be all sufficient and that is where our misconception maybe, as we consider our integrating world societies.

An other point emerged this morning, in that framework and system are not equivalent in this application. I hold a framework to be a structure that lends support, while a system includes structure, content and processes as a functioning whole. Our human traditions are such systems with a long history and these are now bumping up against each other in our modern society.

So, what we need to do today, is to find ways and means for letting such systems function with some mutual accommodation. This involves mutual honouring, respect, tolerance, flexibility, robustness and comprehensiveness.

The defensive attitudes that we find today across the globe in all quarters - think ‘security’ - is due mainly to the apprehension about the not knowing where we are going in this new situation and this makes us defensive. We would like to discover some new perspective that will spell it all out for us.

My view is that we are in charge of framing this perspective, being such knowing moderns and post-moderns even, being that we consider ourselves to be today.

In a variation of ‘If you’re so smart, how come you aren’t rich?’ I could say ‘If we are so smart, how come we can’t get along?’ I think we, as a humanity do not understand our own journey or the stage we have arrived at in history and are still attempting to work with old paradigms, where we should be busy constructing new ones.<10:58am

My Belief as contribution …
… to a global framework based on humanity’s traditions and discoveries, addressing the diversity of our world of today.”

And 11:21am after my lunch break with an emerged wording for my talk:
“My Belief as contribution …
… to a global framework based on humanity’s traditions and discoveries, addressing the diversity of our world of today.”

And with this I’ll sign off, because this writing has now achieved its objective and I have other things to do!
<11:28am~