Micromastery: learning the expertise and skills of many small things instead of aiming to completely excel in just one area. It is a small, discrete, repeatable skill that allows you to glimpse the greater possibilities of mastery available to you.
A new book by author, traveller, lecturer Robert Twigger Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast and Find the Hidden Path to Happiness. An interesting concept.
At the Library: Magic, The Gathering. All ages, independently run group, every Wednesday except the third Wednesday of each month, 6 – 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, 7 p.m., Book Lovers Night Out at the Alpenhorn with the book Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? Author Frans De Waal. Saturday, June 10, 2 – 4 p.m., Truth and Reconciliation; A Community Conversation at the Library. The Library will be closed that day in order to host this event. To note — June is Multi Culture Month.
Did any of you ever have lunch at Woolworths? I remember going there, it was downtown Vancouver, I think close to Gas Town. A list of prices from a 1957 menu: Bacon and Tomato, toasted three decker sandwich 50 cents. Ha, I have just found out my keyboard does not have the cents sign!
A plain toasted cheese sandwich was 30 cents. A Sunday de luxe was 25 cents and an ice cream soda, extra rich, made with two dippers of ice cream and crushed fruit – 25 cents. A king size Coke was 25 cents. Milkshake, 25 cents. Apple pie, per cut 15 cents. Those were the days — I think there is a song with those words.
Don’t forget the garage sale June 3 supporting athletes heading out to the provincial 55+ Seniors’ Games in mid-September in Vernon, B.C. The sale will be 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. at 1380 Cronin Place. The Games website 55plusgames.ca.
June 17 will be the garage sale at the Glenwood Hall. A fundraiser for the Hall starts at 8 a.m. Tables to sell your own stuff are $10 each; drop off items/donations Friday, June 16 at the Hall 1 – 3 p.m. and 6 – 9 p.m.
Interesting websites I have come across: discoursemedia.org contains in-depth journalism with impact. vawlearningnetwork.ca is a learning, educational network. Northern Homestead Facebook page is all about plants, growing them and preserving them. A name I haven’t heard in a long time — Anais Nin. Information from Wikipedia says she was born Feb. 21, 1903 and died Jan. 14, 1977. She was an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, lived most of her life in the United States. goodreads.com/quotes/tag/anais-nin.
Closing with: “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
– Haim G. Ginott.