Roasted Bone-in Chicken Breasts with Jalapeño Sauce

Trim the extra fat.

Peel back the skin to make a pocket.

Salt under the skin and on the bottom

Replace skin and poke holes in fatty areas. Add a bit more salt (pepper optional)

Into oven at 325 for 40 minutes. Chicken will be pale brown.

Move into a lightly oiled frying pan. Start on low and raise to medium-high once chicken is in, to avoid splatter. Move chicken on edge to brown non-skinned areas.

Sauce: 1 cup Finely chopped peppers. 1 cup Cilantro (stems included) or parsley (no stems). All into blender with garlic. Add lime or lemon juice. Add 1 tbsp of mayonnaise. Blend.

Add 2 tbsp olive oil at the end. Sauce is done!

Let chicken stand for 5 minutes before serving.

Dehumanized Humanism aka “Flatland”

Some thoughts from Ken Wilber’s book “A Brief History of Everything” p. 244 

My own words: 

The modern and post-modern world has crippled itself because it has become overtaken by a mechanistic, science-driven, “seeing is believing” mindset. The author refers to this as the fallacy of simple location. The cost of our culture being driven and owned and sculpted by this mindset has been enormous. 

Quote begins. 

The fallacy of simple location:

If something can’t be simply located in physical space, then it isn’t really real. You can locate Gaia, so it exists. You can locate cells, so they exist. You can locate the brain, so it exists. You can locate the biosphere, so it exists.

But you can’t simply locate values and consciousness and beliefs and morals in the same way. You can’t point to them with your finger. You can’t see them or find them anywhere in the great web of sensory nature. They become rambling and ridiculed ghosts in the machine, pathetic illusions in the organic system. They are merely personal tastes and subjective fantasies. The interiors don’t count in a disqualified universe, the universe you can put your finger on.

The irony, of course, is that the universe you can put your finger on is the meaningless universe. So although consciousness and value and meaning are intrinsic to the depth of the Kosmos, they cannot be found in the cosmos. That is, they inhere in the Left-Hand dimensions of the Kosmos, not in the Right-Hand surfaces. And thus, if you are intent on only allowing the sensory surfaces, then you scrub the Kosmos clean of consciousness and meaning and depth, guaranteed.

And so it came about that the Great Holarchy was abandoned, essentially for the first time in history, because you couldn’t put your finger on it. The ghost in the machine was indeed a ghost, because it had just committed suicide.

Men and women have become subject to monological madness: They are objects of information, never subjects in communication. That is, human beings, like all holons, were studied only in their empirical and objective dimensions, and thus were reduced to mere its in the great interwoven web, with no depth and no intentionality and no personhood to speak of. The brutal world of the lab technician, slabs of meat and all.

This is the science of reduced humanism where humans are simply objects of information. Also called “dehumanized humanism.”

There is no translogical Spirit, no dialogical mind; there is just monological nature. Surface nature, mononature, the world of sensory and material forms––this is the “God,” this is the “Goddess,” of the modern and postmodern world.

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Timeline for Education and Teaching

September 1974 to June 1979 High School

September 1979 to August 1980 Work doing Vacuum Installs

September 1980 to December 1980 University of Guelph

January 1981 to August 1981 Work and Lessons and Auditions for Music School

August 1981 found apartment in Hamilton - 40 Oxford Street

September 1981 Started Mohawk College

July 1983 Summer Tour with Heartbeat Band

September 1983 to April 1984 Graduating Year of Mohawk College

May 1984

September 1984 started McMaster Music

May 1985 Trip to Colorado Springs

May 1986 Trip to Philippines

April 1987 graduated McMaster Music

September 1987 started Bachelor of Education at Faculty of Ed. University of Toronto (FEUT)

April 1988 graduated FEUT, granted Ontario Teaching Certificate

April/May 1988 AQ course in ESL part 1

June 1987 Supply teaching in Oakville

June 1987 Interviews in Mattawa and Sudbury. Hired for Music at Lockerby Composite School in Sudbury. Starting salary approximately $25,000/year.

September 1988 moved to own apartment in Garson, just outside of Sudbury. Began teaching music, adult art, history.

April 1989 Lockerby Jazz Band won Gold at Northern Ontario Band Festival

May 1989 trip to Musicfest Nationals in Toronto, won Bronze

July/August 1989 trip to England, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Germany

August 1989 engagement with Brenda :)

December 1989 moved to Walford Road apartment in Sudbury

May 1990 band trip to Boston

July 1990 our wedding. Honeymoon at Pat Shaw's cottage on Pickerel River. Travel to Indianapolis for the coveted "Bill Gothard Institute" OMG OMG I can't believe it. Somebody stole Brenda's new compact bible LOL. We hated the teaching about music being evil. Damn straight we did.

July/August 1990 getting moved and settled in at Walford Road apartment in Sudbury.

September 1990 Brenda starts BA at Laurentian University, while I continue music teaching, we opened our piano lab and I was also picking up some history and basic math courses.

May 1991 band trip to Bahams.

May 1992 band trip to Hawaii. Brenda came along as an additional chaperone.

June 1992 last day teaching at Lockerby. Resigned from Sudbury Board of Ed. Packing up and moving to Hamilton.

July 1992 moved into our basement apartment on Harvest Road in Dundas. Resumes sent out in all directions.

August 1992 interviewed with Glenn Mallory for Hamilton Board of Ed and was hired to work in teaching music at Tweesdmuir Middle School.

September 1992 first day teaching at Tweedsmuir. Brenda babysat for Linda, I would drop her off on my way to work.

February 1993 bought our house on Adeline Avenue and moved in on the coldest day of the year!

June 1993 Olivia enters the world!

September 1995 first day at Memorial (City) School.

December 1995 Ian enters the world!

September 1998 first day at Viscount Montgomery School.

December 1999 Elinor enters the world!

September 2007 first day at Parkdale Elementary School, teaching grade two.

September 2014 first day teaching itinerant music at Adelaide Hoodless, Queen Victoria, Franklin Road and Mount Hope schools. 

November 30 2014 retirement date. November 28 last teaching day.