As Ian Sees It

  I have been doing this a long time.  You usually don't see or hear a thing from me in therapy sessions in the summer.  Mostly because I enjoy things that don't come with a key board.  I like my back yard.  I like my golf course and I like to walk around our beautiful lake.  I enjoy our Mountains a mere ninety minutes to the west of us.  We have put a great deal of movement into our lives the last four years.  So without a rainy day,  I can't bring myself to sit down with those of you who take the time to act as my online therapists.   Well it isn't raining today......It hasn't for a pretty long time by our standards.  In fact it is hot.  Hot.  Damn it's hot!  But worse yet, I have somehow damaged my back.  I am moving like the old man I have been trying so hard to avoid.  Hunched over, tiny steps to get to a seat where it takes several minutes to get in,  and slightly longer to get out.  You can ...

        I am well aware that I would be considered a lazy writer by many.  My grade four teacher certainly knew it.  When I ran into her some 45 years after she taught me for half a year, she got angry all over again as she told my wife how incredibly lazy I was.  (Gee, I'm still not over that!)  Well I may be lazy.  Or it maybe that I am old enough to realize that the summers here are oh so short and every moment outside counts.  But today is dark, cool, wet, and a good day to babble on for a bit.       I am not a real hockey fan.  I am a Canadian so I know a little bit about hockey.  I know most the rules,  the fundamentals of defence, offence, penalty kill, power play, and Zamboni operation.  But I don't watch a lot of hockey during the regular season.  This year however my team was in it till the very end.....which is the very end of June.   I still have hockey hangover.   Now I reali...