It is amazing how the human mind can wander. I was reading the other day about Ontario premier Doug Ford’s reluctance to release the mandate letters he is reputed to have sent his cabinet ministers. Why the news media want to embarrass a man who obviously cannot write, or dictate anything substantive, seems to be a waste of time and money?
And that is not a cheap shot at the premier. It just might be next year before he remembers what he wanted the minister of justice to do for him. He has publicly stated that he thinks our education system is to train people for jobs so I have no idea what he would tell that private school kid that he appointed minister of education. Ford has four more years to cause trouble for us. Best we treat him with caution.
I honestly do not think the premier is of limited intelligence. He is a natural sales guy. I know why he is in politics but I must admit, he does a lousy job of it. I wonder if he has ever read a book?
I understand this because I come from a family of six kids. We were a reasonably bright group but just two of my brothers have post graduate degrees. My sister and oldest brother had professions. And there was my late brother John Lowry, who confessed to reading one book of fiction in his lifetime, and he made millions. He was always getting me to write for him. All of his inventions came about because he asked “What If.”
John showed America’s NASA how to get good television pictures from the moon. He solved problems for satellite broadcasting. We had fun with gyroscopes getting them to stabilize television cameras on helicopters. He brought colour to old movies through a computerized process. The American Academy of Motion Pictures gave him a posthumous award for his work on improving the quality of modern motion pictures with something that is now called the Lowry Process.
I mention this, not that I think Ontario’s premier will ever do anything particularly brilliant. Each of us, in our lifetime though has the opportunity to help others and that is the greatest challenge of all.
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