“The excitement never starts around here.”
Me on May 6, 2025 (to our dog, who was apparently expecting something marvellous to happen mid-morning on a Thursday while I struggled to get to my email).
“high vibe v low vibe”
A comment about the kinds of people we choose to surround ourselves with, by a colleague, June 25, 2025.
“being idiotic is, alas, a human right as well.”
Barbara Amiel in Ottawa Citizen April 25, 1998
“Sing while you fight”
Me on the desirability of being a happy warrior in public policy, both for tactical reasons and because life is both too short and too marvelous an adventure to go around being sour about its difficulties, June 25, 2025
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
Carl Sandburg, quoted in a C2C email teaser June 27, 2025 to an article that did not actually contain that quotation [https://c2cjournal.ca/2025/06/restoring-canada-special-seriespart-vi-the-desperate-need-for-a-baby-bump/].
“It’s crazy how some people need no proof to believe a lie but demand endless proof to accept the truth.”
Emailed by a friend (as a graphic) without attribution
“Those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the Soul of Boot…”
John Galsworthy regarding a particular bootmaker’s samples in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“Students of popular science… are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism”
G.K. Chesterton “Art and Religion” reprinted in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)