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For recreation I read and write fiction, non-fiction and poetry. In the last couple of years I have also been blogging. Click here for my book blog, and here for my other one.
Here are links to examples of my writing:
non-fiction: Tolstoy, Orwell and the Tao of Shakespeare and Collapse of Capitalism? A Rumination;
fiction: The Story of Little Red Riding Hood in the City and Bilgewater in Heaven;
book stuff: Tao Te Ching and Noam Chomsky Lectures: A Play.
Sometimes my writing is of a serious cant. For example, I was an oral presenter to BC's Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform [Note: as of 2012.06.28 the official web page has been removed or broken. The link now takes you the Wikipedia's entry, as this was a process that attracted world wide attention.] I presented an argument [now missing from the official web page that has been removed. The link is now to my blog, where I posted it.] In my argument I proposed that BC move away from governments being created from electoral voting systems, be they First Past Post (FPP), which is the system we have, or a variation on a Transferable Vote system. Subsequent to that presentation I read Aristotle. From him learned that my argument needed to be edited because I had mis-used the word 'democracy' by using it as it is commonly, but erroneously used, today. Click here to see the edited version of my presentation to the Citizens' Assembly.
Work
I have worked for Canada's second largest telecommunications company since 1981 in a diverse array of jobs ranging from delivering mail and loading shipping containers, to LAN administration and civil engineering design.
The last 10 years have been as a civil design technician and telecommunications' engineering course designer and instructor.
Education
The [student of life] learns little or nothing from his successes, for they chiefly confirm him in his mistakes. But failures are priceless experiences because they not only open the way to a better truth but force us to modify our views and methods.
C.G. Jung
And while I may not be a good student of life, my meandering path through formal schooling has been only successful in getting me, in the eyes of the pecuniary motivated world, a 'basket weaving' degree — A.K.A. a Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) from Simon Fraser University (1995) with an extended minor in Economics.
The BGS, which was begun in 1979 as a Science degree in Physics, is comprised of the following interdisciplinary studies over the course of about sixteen years:
Math, Physics, Chemistry, Education, Communications, Canadian Studies, English, Accounting, Statistics, Sociology, Economics and Women's Studies.
Subsequent to being awarded the BGS, I extended the English studies up to about three quarters of a degree. I had the idea of getting a post graduate degree in order to be eligible to apply for training at a Jung Institute.
And I have many technical and other work related courses, including green belt Six Sigma. I have been a certified instructor with my employer since 2003.
Biographical Trivia
In the blogs you can see my complete list of favourites of this or that, but the Coles' Notes' version is below:
Three favourite authors (non-fiction): C.G. Jung; John Ralston Saul; Morris Berman.
Three favourite authors (fiction): William Shakespeare; Umberto Eco; Michael Ondaatje.
Three favourite books (non-fiction): Psychological Types; Voltaire's Bastards; The Re-Enchantment of the World.
Three favourite books (fiction): King Lear; The Island of the Day Before; Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street.
Three favourite movies: The Philadelphia Story; Kill Bill; The Pillow Book.
Three favourite TV shows: Ally McBeal; Wonderfalls; Life.
Three most re-read books: Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu translated by Victor H. Mair; Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street by David Payne; News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness edited by Robert Bly.
I do yoga daily for 90-120 minutes per day. I've become a vegetarian and have stopped ingesting most sugars and have eliminated processed sugar and empty starches from my diet.
After having lived in metro Vancouver for 45 years, I am now a very happy resident of Whitehorse, Yukon.
To Make Contact:
If you would like to comment or question me about this course and/or its contents, please e.mail Guy Duperreault.
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