![]() Travel Log Tuesday June 18 - Off to Port Credit (4 hour drive from Windsor, Ontario), Wednesday did some shopping and visited with eldest son James. His mum and I left for the French River Thursday, another 4 hour drive. Arrived at the cottage and fortunately ⅓ of the big dock was out of the water (record high water levels this year). Unload the boat and haul supplies up the rocks. Weather good. Friday spent organizing and cleaning. I built a raised walkway for the small dock. James arrives around 8:00 pm. Saturday he was up early and got the smaller fishing boat ready. We gave it a shot, but nothing was biting. That evening we got a few pickerel at “The Freezer” but nothing to keep. James and Anthea left around 3:00 the next day. Monday morning I was up early to start the closing work. Had a good fish - 7, including 1 keeper (21” pickerel) and was on the road by 3:00 and back in Port Credit by 6:30. Short visit with son John. To Windsor the next day. Designing the set for Matilda continues. June 14, Happy 67th Wedding Anniversary to Mum and Dad. We were invited next door to Jane and Phil Boots to celebrate it. Lovely meal. 28th - Visit by David Jordan 29th - Visit by Peter Nash Raptors Win NBA Championship. Not without controversy, it was exciting. Someone noticed - it had been 26 years after the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup that the Blue Jays won the World Series. It was 26 years after the World Series win that the Raptors won the NBA Championship. An estimated two million fans attended the victory parade. ![]() Marianne Williamson Congrats on making the Democratic debates. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this run for the Presidency - she represents (IMO) an evolutionary psychic advancement of our species. From the web: “Republican strategist Jeff Roe, who ran the 2016 presidential campaign for Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican of Texas, posted a tweet at the end of the second debate calling on Republicans to donate $1 to Williamson’s campaign. It’s not they are falling in line with her idea to “harness love” to defeat US President Donald Trump. It’s that they want to keep her in future Democratic debates. For her entertainment value.” And they have responded - which may be seen in hindsight as a strategic error. Can't wait for Trump to start tweeting about her. Her website here I have no photos (I usually do) as I've been waiting 3 months (now) for a camera replacement battery - another story. ![]() A Tipping Point? Based on the October 2018 report by the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change) it seems we have 10 years to get global warming under control or face a compromised biosphere, which if left unchecked will lead to a significant extinction/evolution of ours and many other species. According to the science, we need to reduce the amount of carbon being added to the atmosphere by 6% every year for the next 10 years. Currently we continue to add carbon. Obviously we will not make the recommended reductions. If the science is correct, there will come a point where we must make significant changes or as stated, face extinction as a species (as we know it). Assume this report (by some 30,000 scientists) is accurate and a climate emergency is upon us. If we do nothing we will have to act decisively and unilaterally at a point 10 years hence. Having done nothing to curb CO2 emissions when we had the chance, we will be forced to reduce it by some 50% immediately. To do this we will need to approach the problem from several angles. We will have to identify the heaviest CO2 contributors and demand changes. This would be coal burning power plants and major heavy industries. The production of alternative energy sources - wind and solar - will be greatly increased and giant lithium battery storage facilities created. Worldwide we have an excess of capacity for the production of most items. An example would be cars. Instead of running hundreds of auto plants, we would need to reduce the number to fulfil a significantly reduced demand (emergency and specialized vehicles would still be needed) for cars. Limited models - world wide standardization and a reduced product line - to be built at all sites - no longer a variety of brands. This obviously changes the “capitalist” nature of economics - world stock markets would have to be suspended until the situation stabilizes. Many will say that you can’t do that, but if it’s not done there will be no market left to profit from. It could be argued that unchecked capitalism (greed?) is the cause of this climate emergency. There will be huge numbers of displaced workers who will need to be financially supported until retraining and a reorganization of labor is established. Older technologies can be revived - ocean tankers equipped with modern electronic sails for example. Money that might be spent on fixing roads and bridges to be diverted to high speed rail and other local mass transit - we need to provide options to the automobile. The effort required will be very much like how the world reorganized production during WWII. It might even be that that was a rehearsal for what might be facing us. This time it will be a battle for our very survival as the species we have come to be. (if a climate apocalypse occurs there will be many who survive but in a world we won’t recognize). Hopefully the science is wrong or faulty, and the climate emergency will not arrive. ![]() Teilhard de Chardin Chardin asks us to contemplate the very large (solar system, galaxy and universe) and the very small (atoms). He describes “the space” we inhabit as the equator or midpoint between the two extremes. It is here where “density” and “centration” allowed for the construct of molecules (many and different configurations of atoms) and then single cell creatures, (virus etc) which later evolved to include humans. He says humans can be viewed as “molecules” but of the most complex in all the universe - molecules which have self awareness. At some point along the space time continuum, the density and centration of human molecules will bring forth what he calls the “Omega” point - “everything in the universe is fated to spiral towards a final point of divine unification - the Omega Point” The molecule (we call man) has awareness only because each cell has awareness (awareness does not arise because - for an arbitrary example - that 20 billion cells are now present in the fetus). There is no “magic’ point at which a human is “sparked” with awareness - it is always present. The cells which make up the molecule known as man are slightly different than the cells than make up the molecule called tiger - those cells only know “tiger”. Density increases as the population of man increases - the space (both physically and metaphysically) between each of us grows smaller (especially with technology). As this density increases it gives rise (continuing evolution) to a new (he calls noosphere) molecule - one made up of all humans (each individual a part of the whole). At a certain point (Omega Point - the required density), the molecule made of all men will reveal itself as a new consciousness - it is the ultimate destiny of the evolution of the universe. (nicely poetic) ![]() Viewed The Black Godfather 2019 Documentary about Clarence Avant. Born in 1931 in the deep south where the Jim Crow laws were strictly enforced he fled north after a failed attempt to poison his step father for abusing his mother. He was mentored by the famous Joe Glaser to be a music business manager and promoter. He went on to be a music executive, entrepreneur, and film producer, sometimes called the "Godfather of Black Music". His career is “astounding”, and he has a reputation of "being a good person" - something which is apparently not common in that industry. Trailer ![]() Kodachrome 2017 From the web “Matt, a struggling executive (coincidentally in the music business - like Clarence Avant), finds his world turned upside down when his estranged father's nurse shows up unexpectedly in his office. Matt's father, a famed bad-boy photojournalist, is facing terminal cancer and his dying wish is for Matt to join him on a road trip from New York to Kansas to process his last rolls of Kodachrome film before the sole remaining lab closes (true story about the lab) and those captured moments are gone forever.” Stars Ed Harris, Elizabeth Olsen and Jason Sudeikis. It’s quite predictable - you will correctly anticipate how each scene will play out (few surprises that way) and it does use the dying father to tug on your heart strings. Yet there it is still a somewhat endearing film. Trailer ![]() Strangers When We Meet 1960 Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak - married neighbours have an affair. What is interesting about these films is that they show us how people lived during the period - some 60 years ago. We see our evolution reflected not only in the morality questions of the play, but at a deeper level, what is reflected in the design of the everything - the cars, telephones, refrigerators, interiors, clothing, the art on the walls - elegant time capsules which show us where we’ve been. Free on YouTube Trailer Tamarind Seed - Blake Edwards movie starring his wife, Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif. Free on YouTube Trailer One Eyed Jacks - A Sam Peckinpah script originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick, but Marlon Brando starred and directed it. Western Free on YouTube, trailer here Wonder Woman - super hero - nuff said ![]() Read Sea Gypsy Peter Tangvald 1966 Peter sailed around the world in the 1960s in a small motorless yacht. There is an adventurous free-spirited aspect to the book, but it’s also dated and even a little sexist and racist during the portions where he describes natives. He reached notoriety as two of his seven wives were lost at sea. He drowned, along with his daughter Carmen, when his yacht was wrecked in Bonaire in 1991. His son Thomas escaped the accident, but suffered a similar fate when his own yacht was lost at sea in 2014. I enjoy a good sailing adventure, but this was just so-so. ⅗ Goodreads reviews here Activation of Energy Teilhard de Chardin 1963 A difficult read - my interpretation of what I think I read. Chardin speaks about the evolution of the species. As density (molecules get closer together) around a center point (centricity) the molecules became more complex, which evolved in one case into humans. As more humans populate the planet, the density of human interaction and thought is driving towards a new particle, made up literally of all humans. Just as a minimum density was required for a virus, so a minimum density of humans (and our collective consciousness) is needed to reach and produce and new particle - which he calls the Omega Point. I think he says our collective consciousness will become universal - we will all share our thoughts and become pure love. It's a romantic idea. Check out his Legacy on his Wiki page Goodread reviews here
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