Today is JUNO day for Canada, being the day that Canada’s forces fought their way into France at Normandy seventy years ago. At seventy this is maybe a good age to take our leave from all the hoopla and posturing by people who experienced none of those events.

We should simply commemorate that event and its suffering so tragically framed by our human perceptions and ideologies of that time, as lessons learned. In the last few days we have been informed about battle and hunt of a hunter who killed several RCMP officers. There we have an individual rather than a society in battle fatigues, but a tragedy about human perceptions all the same.

Last Wednesday was busy for me after lunch. A haircut - 15$$ - at one pm, was followed by a tea for two (5$), with John at half past and then came the purchase (95$$) of my yearly transit pass. Next was a stop at the open air jeweller, who shortened the wristband of my watch by two links for 5$$.

On, up the mall, to the AMA office where I spent 116$$ for my yearly membership fee. Finally a stop on the way home at ShelfLifeBooks, which cost me 17$$ for my book selection titled ‘Red Nile’ - a biography … - by Robert Twigger, just out that very day in paper back.

Still, in the evening I had yet to get printer ink cartridges - black and three colours - which set me back another sixty four (64) bucks. An expensive day all together, yet satisfactory too in that I am able to afford such expenses.

The above mentioned D-Day anniversary reminds me of an earlier thought from this morning about the Chinese notion of ‘The Mandate form Heaven’ with which legitimate rulers rule. It is a mandate that can be lost, depending on the situation. This made me think about our global mandate and whether the major powers are governing in harmony with it or are following their own local manmade mandates?

This made me think about our global mandate and whether the major powers are governing in harmony with it or are following their own local manmade mandates?

It occurs to me that the mandate the Western Powers held in 1945, has now spread and is shared with a wider range of powers. This changed and shared global power mandate finds much resistance in the West and if that persist it may become the cause of that much feared ‘loss of mandate’!

Only a limited number of missteps are allowed and also precludes an attitude of arrogance, or a perception of holding an universal ideology. “The buoys are moved, as the currents change.“, goes a transliterated Dutch saying and today is such a time. You don’t want your ship of state to run into hidden sand bars and become immobilised, which is the unwanted destiny of ideology informed policies.

The last few days I have been consulting my ‘writing books’ collection, all ten no less! These sources remind me of sentence and paragraph consistence, cohesion between paragraphs - a weak point for me -, of voice, tone and the methods of narrative, description, exposition and argument, while I add analysis for good measure!

In addition, I made along list of events in my life from birth to the present, because I realised that narrative may act as a guide, since my ideas developed over my life time. Yesterday I grouped that list items into six - yet to be named - periods, starting at birth and ending today or tomorrow or …!

I can kind of sense that each such period would open with a narrative and have description of say, a dream, an exposition of an idea and an argument in support of a view and then thrown in somewhere, an analysis of say a noted ‘manmade mandate’!

This is as far as I have come and may yet add something today; say a little try out of a combination, possibly the very beginning even! After all, Canada’s One and Only philosopher in residence, Winy the Pooh, says; ‘The best place to begin, is at the beginning.’ Who am I to argue? This is saying a lot, because I do do so!
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