Can you be cynically healthy?

I’ve been batting this one around in my own thoughts…is it okay to be cynical? Is there anything wrong with this? Can one be cynically healthy? I “googled” cynicism and got these quotes (and a few more): “Cynicism (Kυνισμός) was originally the philosophy of a group of ancient Greeks called the Cynics, founded by Antisthenes….

No regrets

Regret…I’ve been thinking about this lately. Not that I have many regrets, but I have some that’s for sure. In fact I suspect most of us do. If I was to make it list I suppose it might look like this: I regret not pursuing further education when I was younger, I regret not having…

Sunshine on my shoulder

Winter on the prairies is quite different than the ones I have experienced east of here. I’ve spent winters in Newfoundland – the Avalon Peninsula – and in St. John New Brunswick as well as Southern Ontario, and those winters are dull, cloudy and have a not-so-lovely tone of cloud and darkness. But out here…