Kew beach ice scenes, Toronto - January 27, 1929.
📸: John H. Boyd
City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266
#OnThisDay #1920s #torontohistory #toronto #jeremyhopkin
Can you share the title of the piece?
Christmas Mass
Clarence Gagnon
1928-1933
“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
The high water mark of culture was the Discovery Boom De Yada promo. It's all been downhill for the past 15 years from this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0
Rough-legged Hawk
Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe
1993
Shout out to the Georgian people who are, for the 100th day in a row, turning out to oppose a Russian-backed coup. georgiatoday.ge/100th-day-of...
A headline reads "Trump Adviser Insists 'Canada Has Been Taken Over by Mexican Cartels'" overtop a screen grab of Sr. White House Counsellor Peter Navarro, pitch a TV show that combines Breaking Bad and Corner Gas.
BREAKING: Mexican Cartels abandon Canada after being forced to conduct business in both English and French
In the midst of the chaos, time for some honest journalism.
The Ally Point, Low Tide
The Ally Point, Low Tide, 1882
"Wilderness is a necessity ... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls."
~ John Muir
In the Forest at Winter (1885)
🎨 Isaac Levitan
Excited to see this account return!
The Sea at Amsterdam
The Sea at Amsterdam, 1874
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
This is an important point. Working in the economic development space, for most businesses and organizations I interact with the implications of this have not been adequately contemplated.
Relating to these S. Zweig lines:
In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaster in advance in my fantasy, and then again when it became reality.
There is a silent eloquence
In every wild bluebell
That fills my softened heart with bliss
That words could never tell
Anne Brontë
Sunrise on Lake Ontario #nature
Let's try and start this off on the right foot...
