I'm in my eightieth year for one week now, which continues to hold a special significance for me. Eighty used to be quite a landmark age for people when I was a child and not all that common, so I think that my own eightieth feels special for that reason.

However, I know from the obituaries that today too, many people do not reach that age in their lives, not mention the health issues, which for me are of the nature of comfort and energy. So, I am thankful about my lot, health, my life, friends and family!

So, I am thankful about my lot, health, my life, friends and family!

This brings me to my address file project. Yesterday I finished the personal alphabetical list, added the business items and even made an Excel csv file of the Shaw web mail information and printed all this out for review! I'm not there yet, but will be close once the emails are added, which I aim to do today.

For the rest of the day I walked some, bought and read the Globe of the day, cruised the news sites, posted my entry for the day, cooked, ate and had a good snooze. I did make some notes for my talk, which I'll tell below.

Overnight I had a dream filled with many confusing activities in which even my parents were present. Some friends from today and I were camping, at home making breakfast all backwards in my kitchen with my dozing [late] parents in the living room. The backwards breakfast I did know in the dream and struggled to correct! I think that my going through all those addresses, current and old, acted as the trigger for this dream. We'll see.
Later coffee with Don.

The notes I made, regard the need for a realignment of present values and priorities for our world, social activities, policies and political actions. [pp. 22, 23 Blue Norcom Cahier] I repeat the call to suspend the outer mission and proselytizing by missionary religions and to turn that effort and energy towards the insides of such organisations, where many pages rest forgotten in the dark. All present activities are paces in place until the dark deeds of the past are addressed.

But, politically too, we need to move the buoys and markers with the changing tides and current of our integrating planet. We worry about loss of polar ice, its bears and their habitat, yet chase indigenous people of their ancestral lands for the sake of business gains.

I know I simplify, but that makes it clear. Why is bio-diversity desirable in the plant and animal kingdoms, while we overrun and destroy indigenous human cultures that are in our way for one reason or another? If we cannot value each other as humans in our diversity today, then this attitude will set us against one another among those who remain.

If we cannot value each other as humans in our diversity today, then this attitude will set us against one another among those who remain.

These are not exactly my notes, but this writing is about the consequences of refusing to re-align our current values and policies in order to reflect the value of human cultural diversity. What rules today too often is the right of might.

However, there are examples that give hope, such as the treaty with Iran, the coming together on the environment of the planet, the lifting of billions of people above the poverty level, health improvements, access to education and others. Yet too much money goes into weaponry and too little effort into the preventative policies and actions that would pre-empt this need for weapons.

My notes on page 22 say: 'Fighting wars costs more' meaning that policies aimed at resolving conflicts and preventing violence are far cheaper than the fighting war approaches. This does not even get at the human costs and the loss of infrastructure and culture.

Food for thought in addressing the question as to who benefits from what!!

Yet, as an after thought comes to mind that the construction industry makes money on the reconstruction of what the money making weapons industry destroys, not to mention the medical industry that is sideways involved as well! Food for thought in addressing the question as to who benefits from what!!
9:15am and 9:33am~