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James Kitson
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🇨🇦 retired minister, musician, still eager to learn stuff
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Thanksgiving Day in Canada (national holiday since 1879). A time to resolve to message: Your concerns are my concerns. Your questions are my questions. Your worth and dignity are my purpose and mission.
October 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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At a time when persons most publicly visible to us too often seem to be of shrivelled moral character, we need somehow to try to be, like The Doctor’s police box/TARDIS, bigger on the inside.
July 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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What is at stake these days, as it has been in other times, is one’s worthiness as a human. For some (most, one hopes) that worthiness is non-negotiable because it is inherent in all. For others, it is non-negotiable because only they determine who has human worth.
May 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Let’s not be so embittered by malice and stupidity that we resist an ingrained tendency to be drawn toward all that is life-filled and life-affirming, out of fear of further frustration, disappointment and grief.
May 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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There is no point going back to the way it was if the way it was got us to the way it is. There is only forward.
May 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It would be fun to grow up with and continue to play “What would it be like” games. Like “What would it be like to ride an eagle … breathe underwater … be a snail?” Then, when we see someone who doesn’t look like us, is from wherever, we find ourselves asking “What would it be like …?”
April 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Space beings (only to us are they ‘aliens’) may at this moment be debating, as an act of their concept of mercy, whether or not to just vaporize us.
April 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I think I hear karma calling for people who will exercise agency of consequences.
March 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I don’t have the energy to hate. Love is energy efficient.
March 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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There are those who assume, always, that they are in a position to instruct. They also tend to know how to push your buttons. They are phoney leaders because they are bullies. Some, maddeningly, rise to the very top. They need to hear the words “enough,” and “no.”
March 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Any day you might be checking to see if instead of your usual glasses, you have put on a pair of mini kaleidoscopes. Everything seems to be shifting, confusingly. Then I need to make sure of my own rootedness. We need to find it.
March 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Humanity needs something to aspire to—other than serving as tools for the building up of megalomaniacs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Especially when life is perplexing, we need to remember that we are part of a story, even while each of us is our own story. We do not know how this story will play out, but we have significant control — over how we play our part.
February 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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If you really think of what we can imagine, it is amazing, limitless. Then dare to believe that if you can imagine it, you can do it. Then imagine how tragic it is if all you can imagine is your dominance over others.
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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You not only do the right thing but gain self-respect when you swim against the flow of appeasement.
February 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Acknowledged: There are situations in which deportation is warranted. In much of its practice, and in what is planned, however, it is treated not so much as deportation but as disposal. People are not refuse.
January 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Bombast and hostility? There just may be power in gentleness and persistence.
January 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Rain in winter in Toronto I do not like, no I don’t.
December 29, 2024 at 5:02 PM