Why is it that I can recall today, with incredible clarity and detail, where I was and what I was doing over 40 years ago when listening to my favourite song on the radio, and yet I cannot remember just now why I walked into the next room?

I remember one Easter growing up very specifically. We sat down to eat dinner together as a family, and it was a meal that none of us kids particularly liked. As we ate, my parents left for the Easter service at church, leaving us alone at home. We were old enough to fend for ourselves, but not old enough to make wise decisions yet. Since it was a dinner we didn’t like, we conspired to throw out and hide our food so we wouldn’t have to eat it.

In 1973, my father purchased ten acres of land south of Mitchell. At the time, minimum wage was $1.90 per hour and the land cost $80 per acre. Today, two acres of land in the same area sells for $80,000–90,000.

When we look globally, or at least at the Western world, the issues of gun control is largely an American problem. Our fine neighbours to the south have taken gun culture to levels that are unrivalled anywhere in the developed world. Citing the Second Amendment, the 200-odd-year American grudge against tyrannical leadership has fostered a race for citizens to arm themselves with increased firepower.

Did you know that love has its own frequency? Energy is measured in frequencies, or cycles per second of vibrating electrons, and it has been said that 528 hertz is the fast-paced frequency of love.

The First Nations of Canada have a traditional philosophy that is central to their oral teachings.