Musings (Reflections)

Practice makes perfect… or so the old adage mistakenly leads some to believe. Aside from the fact that even extensive practice is not enough to explain why people differ in their skill levels, perfection is an illusion, an ideological concept that exists only relative to your own expectations and experiences...

A few metres from my front door runs a creek which was restored as part of a residential development proposal granted by the city. The creek benefits from ongoing remediation work and it’s a pleasure to see critters enjoying the newly restored watershed which had previously been culverted for decades...

We spent the last week of the summer in Kootenay National Park, on the traditional and unceded territories of the Ktunaxa Nation and Secwe̓pemc peoples. It was a welcome break and we were lucky to avoid crowds and smoky skies...

James Carse, who was Director of Religious Studies at New York University for thirty years, introduced the concept of play and possibility as a vision of life, in his book Finite and Infinite Games (1986) which he wrote after participating in a seminar on game theory - the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents...

When I wrote my master’s thesis, there was a compulsory written reflective element. For many, this kind of reflection may have seemed like an unnecessary extra, having already put together a much larger body of work to be scrutinised by the exam board...