New Horizons by Max Roy

                                  Seeing With My Own Eyes   It was a beautifully sunny today contradicting the promised rain. Then came the rain and then it went. The staunch container ships were arrayed across English Bay here in the city. The water was glassy calm even with a sprightly breeze off the ocean ruffling my hair, currently being worn long and loose. My Bride and I are enjoying the pleasures of this autumn day as we take our medicinal walk along the Sea Wall. I am wearing my straw hat which I have adorned with many feathers and a button preaching love. We hold hands or lock arms depending on the traffic. People smile at us or remark on my hat. We are having a good time living in the moment. We are pushing it in the age dimension. When we married at seventy, we never thought about our age, and now it’s nearly twenty years later. We know people are living longer as advances in medicine and information about desirable lifestyles are   having their impact. Yet, we

    The Vanishing Breed This is not a scholarly article with annotations of sources and detailed attributions. Much too bulky! You are getting here a version of history that I have been able to drag out of Google and the Bible to make the points I want to make. It is what it is. My story of populations is a numbers game so we will have a few numbers to talk about. The story goes back to Abraham. Sarah, his wife, was barren, so she brought her handmaiden Hagar to give Abraham children. She bore Ishmael. When God intervened, and Rachel bore Isaac, she persuaded Abraham to turn Hagar and her son out. Ishmael is the supposed progenitor of the Arabs, the other element, with the Jews, of the Semitic race. The story shifts to Jacob, Abraham’s grandson, who took his family, numbering some seventy persons, to Egypt, where his son Joseph stood at the right hand of the Pharaoh. We know that things changed after some time, and the rulers, perhaps fearing the power and numbers of these

                 Light And Color. Light and color are an important part of the joys we find in life. It is no surprise we don’t have any trouble talking about that. At the same time there is a lot of mystery about those elements in our lives that we don’t think about. Since the dawn of man they have fascinated us. Many humans have found them a source and a basis for worship. Man has studied them since they first began looking up. Over the centuries they have been the subject of human study. These days, our scientists are have offered some ideas they believe in for our consideration. They say light is an expression of energy. That seems obvious. They also think that light takes the form of waves or particles called photons. That may be new to us.   They tell us light can be considered to travel in waves. In the world of quantum physics scientists have determined that light can also travel as particles. Indeed, it is claimed that light can be both at the same time. Once we are