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Thinkers I admire: David Suzuki

David Suzuki writes that ‘Despair Is a Luxury We Can’t Afford’. As a writer, I love the words he chose on a subject we haven’t seen get much traction. It’s almost the polar opposite of my writing, that claims we are short on despair and long on kicking cans down the road.

But he has a point and it’s a better one than mine

We are each of us treating the issue of climate change and Suzuki says we have to stop elevating the economy and politics over the state of our world. Hard to argue that. The economy and politics will still be here in a hundred years, although the world (at least as we will have remembered it) may have thought it over and decided to move on without us.

David has made his case. I have made mine, perhaps even a time too often. If you are a writer, and if you hope to have left a mark on the world of words a hundred years from now, it’s time to make yours.

There Was a Time I Wrote Poetry…

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A Note to Anyone in Charge of Hiring

It’s nasty, time consuming work, with companies over-specifying what they need and applicants over-promising their skills. That sets up way too many useless interviews and a huge waste of resources while the job remains unfilled. “We’ll pay you a decent wage, along...

Kids Don’t Read and Write Anymore

Once you get old enough to be a ‘gaffer,’ it’s all the rage to complain about the younger generation. My parents did it, theirs did as well and it probably goes back to the cave men. Not that I consider myself a gaffer, but I’m old enough to rate. Fact is that kids...

The Writer’s Life as Told to Me by Others

I’m told that the life of a writer is often a journey filled with passion, creativity, challenges, and introspection. I also hear that writers are individuals who have a unique way of perceiving the world, and they use words as their medium to express their thoughts,...