Ageing With Grace

07/30/2025

07/07/2025

I can relate

Helen Mirren once said:

“One of the greatest gifts of growing older is discovering the exquisite art of being alone. What used to feel like uncomfortable silence has become a luxury. In a quiet house, I can dance in the kitchen without anyone judging, or simply do nothing at all. My best company is myself: with a cup of coffee, a good movie, and the freedom just to be. Because solitude isn’t an absence—it’s fullness and peace of mind.”

How important it is to learn to enjoy our own presence.
It’s not about being alone—it’s about being complete.

06/16/2025

True horse lovers may grow old in body…
But their soul — never.

Because once you’ve truly trusted a horse —
with an open heart —
you’re never quite the same again.
You learn to see without eyes,
to hear the silence of hooves,
to understand a language without words.

You know what it means to rest your head against a warm neck
and feel all your fears melt away.
You know how it feels — not to speak, but simply to be.
And that warmth stays with you for life.

Even when your hands no longer hold the reins,
even when your legs no longer run —
your soul is still galloping across a field,
as free as it was in your youth.

Because a soul that has once touched a horse
never ages.
It lives on through love,
timeless and unshakable,
breathing quietly through the silence,
never fading.

And though the years may pass —
the memories remain.
Those moments when it was just you and your horse and the wind,
and that was enough
to make life beautiful.

05/23/2025

"If you happen to see me, please don’t judge too quickly. I’m not some monster from a bedtime story. I belong to the quiet of the forest, the shadows of the mountains. You see, a wolf doesn’t choose to live alone unless it has to. We are born into packs—into family. My instincts come from a place of love: strong, raw, and fiercely loyal to the very end.

I don’t hunt for fun—I hunt to survive. Yet somehow, I’ve become the hunted, without cause. Not to divide us, not to erase the path my kind has walked for generations. Not to destroy the forest, which may be the only home I truly have.

You don’t have to love me. But you can respect me. I’m not the danger people think I am—but the world keeps becoming more dangerous for me. So, if you see me—don’t panic, don’t scream, and please… don’t raise your weapon. Just let me be."

𝗔𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆:👇

https://epiola.com/firefox_one_rarest_enchanting_creatures_earth/

04/26/2025

Why isn't the media reporting on this? It's kind of important for Canadians to know.

"It is high time that Canadians discuss and understand Mark Carney’s avowed plan to re-align capital with global Net Zero goals. His economic vision for Canada, one that spans energy, housing and defence, rests on an unspoken, largely undisclosed, linchpin: Climate Finance – one that promises a Net Zero future for Canada but which masks a radical economic overhaul.

Regrettably, Carney’s potential approach to a Net Zero future remains largely unexamined in this election. As the former chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), Carney has proposed new policies, offices, agencies, and bureaus required to achieve these goals.. Pieced together from his presentations, discussions, testimonies and book, Carney’s approach to climate finance appears to have four pillars: mandatory climate disclosures, mandatory transition plans, centralized data sharing via the United Nations’ Net Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU) and compliance with voluntary carbon markets (VCMs). There are serious issues for Canada’s economy if these principles were to form the core values for policies under a potential Liberal government.

About the first pillar Carney has been unequivocal: “Achieving net zero requires a whole economy transition.” This would require a restructuring energy and financial systems to shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy with Carney insisting repeatedly in his book that “every financial [and business] decision takes climate change into account.” Climate finance, unlike broader sustainable finance with its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) focus would channel capital into sectors aligned with a 2050 Net Zero trajectory. Carney states: “Companies, and those who invest in them…who are part of the solution, will be rewarded. Those lagging behind…will be punished.” In other words, capital would flow to compliant firms but be withheld from so-called “high emitters”.

How will investors, banks and insurers distinguish solution from problem? Mandatory climate disclosures, aligned with the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), would compel firms to report emissions and outline their Net Zero strategies. Canada’s Sustainability Standards Board has adopted these methodologies, despite concerns they would disadvantage Canadian businesses. Here, Carney repeatedly emphasizes disclosures as the cornerstone to track emissions data required to shift capital away from “high emitters”. Without this, he claims, large institutional investors lack the data on supply chains to make informed decisions to shift capital to businesses that are Net Zero compliant.

The second pillar, Mandatory Transition Plans would require companies to map a 2050 Net Zero trajectory for emission reduction targets. Failure to meet those targets would invite pressure from investors, banks, or activists, who may pursue litigation for non-compliance. The UK’s Transition Plan Task Force, now part of ISSB, provides this standardized framework. Carney, while at GFANZ, advocated using transition plans for a “managed phase-out” of high-emitting assets like coal, oil and gas, not just through divestment but by financing emissions reductions. “As part of their transition planning, [GFANZ] members should establish and apply financing policies to phase out and align carbon-intensive sectors and activities, such as thermal coal, oil and gas and deforestation, not only through asset divestment but also through transition finance that reduces real world emissions. To assist with these efforts GFANZ will continue to develop and implement a framework for the Managed Phase-out of high-emitting assets.” Clearly, the purpose of this is to ensure companies either decarbonize or face capital withdrawal.

The third pillar is the United Nations’ Net Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU), a centralized platform for emissions and transition data. Carney insists these data be freely accessible, enabling investors, banks and insurers to judge companies’ progress to Net Zero. As Carney noted in 2021: “Private finance is judging…banks, pension funds and asset managers have to show where they are in the transition to Net Zero.” Hence, compliant firms would receive investment; laggards would face divestment.

Finally, voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) allow companies to offset emissions by purchasing credits from projects like reforestation. Carney, who launched the Taskforce on Scaling VCMs in 2020, has insisted on monitoring, verification and lifecycle tracking. At a 2024 Beijing conference, he suggested major jurisdictions could establish VCMs by COP 30 (planned for 2025 in Brazil) to create a global market. If Canada mandates VCMs, businesses especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) would face much higher compliance costs with credits available only to those that demonstrate progress with transition plans.

These potential mandatory disclosures and transition plans would burden Canadian businesses with material costs and legal risks that constitute an economic gamble which few may recognize but all should weigh. Do Canadians truly want a government that has an undisclosed climate finance agenda that would be subservient to an opaque globalized Net Zero agenda?" https://x.com/GasPriceWizard/status/1915022365362151550

04/26/2025

Young people voting Conservative are voting for the opportunity to have a good life.

Older people (not all) voting for Carney already had a good life and are blind to the struggle in this country. They’re voting Liberal because they’re scared of Trump.

Young people are voting because of things happening to them every day—crazy rents, crazy housing prices, crazy bills, crazy low paychecks, and the crushing realization that they may never be able to start a family in Canada.

Older people (not all) are voting because of things the TV tells them might happen in the future. It’s fear. Overall, they live very comfortable lives because they made their success in the Canada that was, not the Canada that is now.

The Brantford Boomer meme perfectly captures this dichotomy. Older well off people completely separated from the realities of Canada concerned about luxury issues while showing contempt for how hard life is in this country for everybody below them on the social mobility ladder.

That’s why the meme went mega viral and that’s what’s going on in this election.

Photo credit CarymaRules/X

04/21/2025

04/18/2025

You might be mad at the behavior of Canada's publicly funded and supported media companies carrying water for Carney.

You might be excited and energized after Pierre's stellar debate performance tonight.

Take that energy and bring every single person you know to vote Conservative. Pierre has done his job. Now we have to do ours.

It's our country. Let's fix it.