Time to Face Facts

By Jim Hagarty
2016

The removal of an uncertainty in life can be a very freeing experience. Like bringing a camera into focus. A fact cannot be faced until we have a fact we can face. It doesn’t matter if that fact is one we didn’t want to face. Just the fact that we finally have a fact in front of us that cannot be evaded or wished away, lets us adjust our sails. A fact allows our imagination to go back to sleep. Few things are more frightening than an imagination run wild.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.