About This Website
About Me
I am a Retired Research Librarian currently living in Ontario, Canada. I worked for 35 years in various public and special libraries where I learned, first hand, the value and power of good information.
For some clients, good information simply meant competitive advantage. For all, it meant a better understanding of their situation that empowered wiser decisions and better actions.
I am incurably curious. I am always searching for information to help me make sense of this noisy and chaotic world.
Early on in the pandemic, when asked how I was doing, all I could truthfully answer was – ‘trying to be street smart and spirit wise’. Street smart – spirit wise.
In my thoughts today …
DISCERNMENT
The true art of effective communication is not only saying the right thing at the right time, it’s also leaving unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
‘Sticks and stones’ will break my bones —
But ‘words’ will break
my heart
About This Website
Here you will find links to information widely available but unlikely to be seen by the general public. Over the past several years, I have watched much of this information vigorously censored and suppressed from mainstream view.
The mainstream media, public health officials, and politicians, have been ‘flooding the zone’ with highly-emotional messaging to create particular perceptions of the world.
Public health officials are professionally trained in the use of ‘fear appeal‘ – the deliberate creation of fear and anxiety to move whole populations of people towards beliefs and actions they would normally resist.
This is my attempt to balance highly-emotional mainstream messaging with factual and scientific information from authoritative sources – my attempt to reveal a world of credible information, clamoring loudly, just outside the focus of attention of most people.
This website is also my attempt to create and preserve an historical record of important events – in effect, a timeline of how issues evolved over time.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
Street Smart ...
– maintain a keen and watchful situational awareness of your physical environment and the people in it, and know what, and who, is happening around you at all times
– prepare for all eventualities, good and bad, and are willing and able to protect yourself appropriately
– find ways to navigate through crises with minimum fuss – maneuver ‘through the cracks’
– act assertively to situations rather than merely react thoughtlessly or carelessly
– trust your own judgment of people and situations, and make your own decisions
Spirit Wise ...
– truths and beliefs are well-considered, strong enough to reliably anchor your actions despite consequences, and flexible enough to evolve with new understandings
– can deliberately change your focus of attention away from the noisy external world back into your quiet non-reactive emotional centre
– possess a strong and centering sense of self. You know ‘who’ and ‘what’ you are, have the ability to recognize when you are not being your ‘self’, and possess the skills to bring yourself back to your true centre
– possess the emotional strength of tempered steel, the flexibility of the willow, and the wisdom to know when, and how, to use each