Musings
A special section devoted to thought-provoking metanarratives and short stories. Easily digestible pieces for quick reading and refreshing breaks to add touches of perspective.



That Quote Has a Ring To It …
By Robert Basler, On June 4,1989, the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, I was in the Reuters office in Beijing, taking notes from our reporters in the Square, who were using clunky, barely portable mobile phones. I used those notes to cobble together stories that were going out to

That Quote Has a Ring To It …
By Robert Basler, On June 4,1989, the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, I was in the Reuters office in Beijing, taking notes from our reporters in the Square, who were using clunky, barely portable mobile phones. I used those notes to cobble together stories that were going out to

Traveling the World from My Sofa
By Bethany Browning, Sure, Squid Game is exciting, but have you seen those videos where people walk through a city for an hour? The concept

Psychedelics and the Holocaust: A Journey Into Ancestral Memory
By Seth Lorinczi, My midlife crisis came a few years ago. It arrived right on time: I was in my 40s, married with a young

Daring to Not Have an Opinion is the Vulnerability We Need
By Nadia Schmidtke “All I am saying is that I’d rather give all that money to green energy research or something,” said my acquaintance. I

The Pandemic Taught Me I Don’t Need to Smile
I thought smiling made me a nice person. Not only was I making everyone’s day better by blessing them with an unobstructed view of my bright and shiny chompers, but I was showing them they matter. My smiling made others feel important.Then it dawned on me: My adult smiling was an offshoot of my childhood attention grabbing. Never was this more obvious to me than when I had to mask up for COVID.

Did A Bank Teller Change Ontario’s Course on Basic Income?
By Jamie Swift During Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s 2018 election campaign, he promised to stay the course, funding the province’s Basic Income pilot project for


