Chris Janzen

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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

100th day of pro-European protests: Rallies planned in Tbilisi and regions On March 7, marking the 100th consecutive day of pro-European protests, a series of coordinated rallies are scheduled across Tbilisi

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

Whole 'nother Story - February YouTube video by KMOX1120

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

Seascape

Seascape https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/seascape

'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)

At Volga.

At Volga. https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/at-volga-1888

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.

No.301

No.301 https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/no-301

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...