Thoughts on history, on the media, on war

Hey, still blogging.

Listening to Radiohead, drinking tea, and scanning the news as always.

Trying not to live in the past, but events and anniversaries of this week -mostly from the 20th Century - always lead to reflection on where we have been and where we are going. Canada, the West, the Middle East. Walls and anniversaries. It's been 20 years since East Berliners tasted some sort of freedom and the wall came crumbling down. The Iron Curtain was lifted; Poles, Hungarians, Romanians..many more, also tasting democracy.

A day of remembrance. The First and Second World wars on the mind. Afghanistan too. 71 years since Kristallnacht. Wow. Have we really come a long way? Is this really a new generation? Africa on the mind, North Korea, China, Cuba. Walls and war, Communism and oppression.

A winter chill again in the air; gloomy and dark memories of the past, events which lead us to the light.

A gripping fear of pandemic will perhaps leave me inside today. Maybe not. Ha.

a - What is a Canadian? Really, what is Canada? Not just hockey, snow, Tim Horton`s and flag-waving you see. Canada has a distinct past; a distinct people. Hmm. Well, now we will finally know what it means to be Canadian. Apparently. The government is going to tell us what that means you see.