As I watch the forests burn down around me in British Columbia, Canada, I received the news that I’m now a great uncle for the second time. It should be a happy time, but it’s not. It’s hard to celebrate that occasion when everything around me is so bleak.

I watched a town that my wife and I went through a couple of years ago on a trip burn to the ground in a wildfire. Now, we are faced with a worsening drought and crops that probably won't be salvageable in the fall. It’s much the same story in other…

I really detest the word success. In our world, success means for the most part you have a lot of money. We all strive day-in-day-out to make this thing called money. When we have a lot of it we are called to success. When we don't have a lot of it you would be considered to be a failure, a bum, a loser, and whatever other word you can think of to describe someone who doesn't have a lot of money.

I took a recent trip with my wife to a nice hotel. While I wouldn't consider myself to be…

I always look forward to the late June weather on the west coast of British Columbia. The daytime temperatures often get into the low 20s, which makes for a pleasant day. You get to go outside, take a walk, eat out on a patio, or go down to the beach and listen to the waves crash against the shore.

This is the beginning of summer here on the west coast of Canada. Our summers are usually warm but never all that hot. You usually only get the extremely hot temperatures if you go into the interior in places such as…

In my quest to get healthier, I have discovered a lot of different things about myself. The reality is that our food choices today or not the best for us. We've become addicted to taste, salt, sugar, additives, preservatives, and we have forgotten what real food tastes like.

We want the convenience of food today and don't want to cook it ourselves. Unfortunately, this results in the vast majority of us making poor food choices, and as a result, our health starts to suffer.

It's the food we eat, for the most part, that is responsible for how healthy we…

Sorry reverse racism whatever the skin color does exist. Anyone can be racist. Go read a history book. White slavery and oppression has happen in ancient times, might not be a lot now, but it was throughout history. Ottoman Empire, Ancient Rome, Slavic slaves etc.. So, yes white people have experienced oppression, as have all other races.

Modern oppression of blacks has been horrific but other races have experienced it too. If you're going to be racist for racist things that happened in the past, chances are you're racist. Best thing would be for no one to be racist or if will never end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery

Most people today are on some sort of diet. This is one of the most overused words we have in our vocabulary. The problem with the word diet is that it doesn't address the underlying problem that we have.

You end up hating yourself because you weren't able to stay on your diet. The food we eat needs to make us feel good. You want food that gives you the energy. You want food that gives you vitality. A lot of the food we find in our supermarkets does not provide this for us. …

It is safe to say that a lot of us drink far too much alcohol. We think that we're not drinking that much, but in reality, we are. I have been guilty of drinking far too much alcohol in recent months, especially since Covid-19 hit. Before the pandemic, I had tried to cut down, but the stress got the best of me, and I began to drink more than I wanted to.

Now that the pandemic seems to be winding down, I have decided that it's time to stop drinking so much. This has begun to be a problem. …

Most of us understand we need to have a healthy diet to feel our best. The problem is that most of our food today is not food at all. These so-called foods we find in our grocery store are nothing more than chemical concoctions. These products taste great, leave us feeling full, but offer little nutrition.

Compare your local grocery store to a market that you find in Asia or similar countries. These markets, mostly, are full of fresh food. It's a lot more difficult to get processed food there. …