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I try every day, to write better, to give life to ideas and to speak out as I share my thoughts - hopefully stimulating some readers to consider, respond or discuss my point of view and theirs too, as a call to action, a search for consensus.
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Children carry what we choose to teach (opens the original)
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inheritance → responsibility → education → children → generational change → truth before reconciliation feels to me like a progression worth thinnking about here, because most of us have our own spotty history of awareness and concern - but our children, grandchildren and everyone else’s orbit of people/concerns and issues need - I hope we would all agree on this point - to instill in everyone in Canada at an early age, the value and need of different approaches to living with our fellow Canadia
An orange shirt is a sign, not a reconciliation (opens the original)
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Any national holiday can ask for our attention. But without understanding, buy-in and commitment, it’s another calendar day, and this one deserves more.What happens after those orange shirts go back in the drawer …Subscribe nowMusings+ is a reader-supported publication. <st
Before urgency takes over, be ready (opens the original)
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This isn’t advice to “be prepared” for everything.It’s my argument for noticing, and for noticing sooner.First warnings or elevated concerns are rarely a warning of a crisis pending, but ignoring signs and signals will, inevitably, increase our risk. … simply noticing that what worked yesterday won’t work tomorrow.<a class="button primary" href="https://markmusing.substack.com
Three effs - focus, fold, fly (opens the original)
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Doing less isn’t shrinking our ambition.Not mine; I’m sure of that.It’s finally giving all those ‘great ideas and projects’ stalled before the on-ramp, waiting for me to step on the gas; it gives fuel to my three effs …Somewhere useful to go.Subscri
PLAN ‘A’ 2.0 (opens the original)
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I’m not suggesting anyone (other than me) requires, deserves or might benefit from a mindset-reset of any kind … but I can think of a few …None of this is new. I’ve not invented a better mousetrap, cured any diseases, phobia or overthrown any oppressive regimes. This is not a ‘letter to the editor’ rant.It’s more of a call to action piece.Or maybe it isn’t -
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