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Ws a pretty good idea to stop once in a while and give thanks. It doesn't have to be Thanksgiving Day, but it's as good a time as any. Ws a day to take stock, look around, be glad you‘re alive, and if you have anything at all to be thankful about, perhaps mutter "Thank God. ,. There are a few - a very few - who haven't one single thing in the world to be thankful about, and my heart goes out to them. But most of us, if we are honest, can find all sorts of things if we dig around in the detritus of our lives. For example, my wife is inclined to get bags under her eyes, on the slightest provocation. I never get them, which makes her furious, because she is five years younger than I and infinitely better looking. "Why do you never get bags?" she snarks at me. "Because I have a pure heart and a clean mind" I retort, which doubles her fury. You see, there's lots to be thankful for. Just being alive is one thing. Millions of people aren't. And while things may be pretty groovy in heaven, and pretty gruesome in hell. I doubt seriously that either has as much to offer as being a human on this rotten old earth. She is the one who does Yoga exercises and goes on diets. And gains weight. I am the one who never does anything more strenuous than take the cap off a bottle of beer, eats anything in sight, and has a waist like a wasp. People urged to humanize selves By Susan Turansky. Sam Keen, guest lectur- er at Wilfrid Laurier Uni- versity last week, urged people to humanize them- selves; "to operate more out of desire and delight than out of oughtness and explpitatjgn." . Mr. Keen, an Ameri- can philosopher, psycholo- gist, theologian and writer said in an interview that people must get perspec- tive on their jobs. mar- riages and goals. It is nec- essary to get in touch with "what you really want" and to do this Mr. Keen suggested getting away. breaking routines. and fantasy. Mr. Keen said fantasies of rape, stealing and mur- der are natural. healthy ways of dealing with de- sires that would be wrong to carry out. He said "good people fantasize what bad people have to do ...Fan- tasy is about giving up responsibi tity, p. Mr. Keen said that the feminine century, when we must go from being controllers. exploiters. and penetrators and surrender ourselves to re-acting with the world, will be "basi- cally a different sense of what it means to be in the world." Some quotations from Mr. Keen's lectures and - nouns "t-ESST W KI'CHEN‘" MONDAY sumac“ w s 30 P u holwum omnmo .nacAuxu s, "no" we?» pfhlMAhlS mmm WTL§1§IOIES Tremendous selection of first quality samples. priced to clear out. Assorted sizes Winter underwear WLU lecturer - Sam Keen "If we don't discover that which balances pow- er, we'll do ourselves in... We are facing a situation in which our children can- not possibly grow up in a world as affluent and mo- bile as this one...We are at the end of an era in the western world. .. "We have American. Russian. Chinese educa- tion, but few schools in which allegiance to the human good is viewed as the prime value to be learned." “In raising the question of the relation between the carnal and the sacred we are suggesting that there may be "nonreli- gious" experiences of the sacred. . . .There is grace in the harmony of color and in caressing winds as well as in words of friend- ship and the conversation of flesh and flesh." “We live in a world where the terror of exis- tence is Just balanced by the wonder. _ _ Mr. Keen said the fem- inine revolution has a lot to do with the world be- coming gentle again, He said the history of Western man has been the history of trying to penetrate. He bots fqllow: “If you understand Eagle Scouts. you under- stand a lot about America. .. I have bursitis in my shoulder. arthritis in my (0?, disin- tegrating discs in my spine, and a tooth that ails out every time I bite anything more substantial than a banana. But on the other hand, I don't have cancer. a bum heart. high blood pressure, diabetes, or the crud. I can still hob- ble around 18 holes of golf, catch a fish, and stay up till four o'ciock in the morning and put in a good day's work. Boy, am I thankful. Bin even the government can't destroy our delight in a Canadian fall. rm happy to be a Canadian. although it gets a little harder each year, what with inflation, unemployment, pol- lution, separatism and a Liberal government that is trying to get every nickel out of me before I die so I can't take it with me. , I am delighted to have two grandsons, although I would be enchanted with a granddaughter, and have spoken se- riously to my daughter about this. And I am deeply grate- ful that the littler one, who went into hospital with meningi- lie been in England, Belgium. Holland and Germany in the, autumn. And believe you me, baby, none of them is within 1,000 light years of our wild and glorious October. when the Mad Artist starts throwing the colors on His pal- ette. sees God as male and nature as female. “I see what we are doing to na- ture as an almost con- scious attempt to punish the female. , ' The lectures were de- scribed by listeners as "very interesting," "thought provoking." and "wonderful." In modern cities, banks are temples because they support technology which equals applied science and schools, the philoso- pher said. - The lectures were de- scribed by listeners as "very interesting," Mr. Keen said his talks contain value judgements that come out of his own experience, but experi- Monday to Thursday 11 :30 am. to 9:30 pm. Ftiday 1 1:30 1m. to 10:30 pm. 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WW my, Wednesday, Octoba 26, 1977 - Pop 31 .5: sturdy aia Slicrmantank. tis last sprigs. suffered, no lasting effects and is abouf as I am quite thankful that only three of the shutters are missing from my house. Instead of three. they could all have been blown off in those terrible storms last winter. And I expect to have the three back on any year now. The trays are naive and eager. The girls haven't yet de- cided to become sexpots. They haven't really formed yet the masks they wiit.presettt ttsociety, in anal or p. - l, This year, I am thankful to have a Grade Nine class to teach. What a pleasure their bright minds and-faces are after coping with the blase apathy of senior students for several years. . In fact, nix excéedingly thanktu'l to have a job I like. Many, many persons don’t have a job at all, or hate the onethey're doing. - - _ _ _ - I can take keen young minds, and within a year or two have them writing and spelling like this: “The squirt wich was in the tree leeped onto the fence were he seen severial aykorns reddy to be ate." It's fascinating, how one can mold young minds. _ - _ - . .. . ...= rm glad rm not ugly. I am far from handsome, but I don't scare little children. Hell, if I got my teeth capped, dyed my hair and had a face-lift. I could pass for 58. which I will be next June. Another thing to be extremely thankful .for is the ability to sleep. My wife has insomnia. A lot of my friends have it. I can lie down after any kind of a hellish day and flake out like an old rubber boot, to rise, fresh and dewey-eyed tno bags. remember l, for the next day's fray. My nose has been broken so often I can't smell a thing. This detracts a little from enjoyment of food. But it also means I can't smell onion breath, whiskey breath, body odor or dead mice between the walls. That's the good old silver lining. I‘m thankful that I have a few friends. and doubly thank- ful that they are all in worse shape thay I. __ - A Finally, rm sincerely thankful that: our cat has buggered off for greener pastures; my garage hasn't fallen down; my wife tolerates me; and I have nearly finished this col- umn. Thank You. God. rm a little resentful that my wife is so young and vibrant. But at the same time, I'm thankful. When I get old and miserable. and start dribbling down my front, I‘ll have a built-in nurse. Provided she doesn't run off with the mail- man. lf he isn't on strike.