Word of Mouth blog

I still have a lump in my throat after viewing this unique portfolio of many exquisite photos of humans at peace and in communion with what the photographer has called nature’s masterpieces, meaning magnificant animals.
Enjoy.
Care

http://www.ashesandsnow.org/en/home.php

To continue the thought about how crowds can be threatening in that by definition they are a strange, unpredictable beast with many bodies but only one head, along comes this well crafted think piece. I could not have said any of it half as well. Herd instinct indeed.
- Care
The madness of eco-crowds
Peter Foster, Financial Post
One [...]

I don’t often post music videos here, but this one is just so sweet, uplifting (literally), weird and cool that I thought I’d share it here.
Feisty: Mushaboom

Free the Hemp Weed!
- Phil
States Push to Legalize Hemp Cultivation
The crop known as “industrial hemp” may look like marijuana, but it has little in common with its illegal cousin. The plant, a non-narcotic version of cannabis, is valued for its fiber and oil.
But there has been a virtual ban on farming industrial hemp in America [...]

Islands Trust by-election time this summer. Who’s it going to be? This should be interesting…
- Phee
May 23, 2007
HORNBY ISLAND BY-ELECTION PLANNED
VICTORIA – Hornby Island Local Trustee Cari St.Pierre has submitted her resignation from the Hornby Island Local Trust Committee, effective May 22, 2007. Trustee St. Pierre was in her first term as one of [...]

I’m definitely looking forward to seeing this one…
- Phee
May 23rd, 2007
Friends,
Well, as you may have read by now, our premiere of “Sicko” at the Cannes Film Festival has been an overwhelming success. The 2,000 people inside the Lumiere Theater were alternately in tears and laughing during the two-hour film — and when it was over, [...]

“May you live in interesting times” – Ancient Chinese curse
My mother’s family of origin lived in interesting times, which also entailed dying in those same interesting times. I grew up in the same era as the writer of the article linked to below and was shaped by many of the same waves of cultural and [...]

Provincial decision on ferry fares coming very soon!
Attached is the Minister of Transportation’s current response to people who have written to him to express concern about the rising costs of ferry service.
His words are in bold. I have added some comments in italics.
Now is the time to send final messages to the Minister and his [...]

I do wish they would free these kind of people from jail. Wake up and smell the coffee everybody. This fellow is not a criminal, not a menace to society, but a business person giving our society what they want and already have. Free the weed!…and the candy too!!!
- Phil
Hershey sues imprisoned marijuana candy maker [...]

Maybe it’s true…I think it is true!!
- Phil
Bush’s global impact ‘worst in history’: Carter
from cbc.ca
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has called President George W. Bush’s administration “the worst in history” in international relations, criticizing the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented [...]