Gary McDonald "inRefinement" by A. McPope

Sitting in my Queen Ann chair completed with Cozy Desk, MacBook Air and iPhone has been the rule rather than the exception. I could draw upon activities inside and outside the house. Now, it's mostly inside. Virtually all of my time during these days, now that the world is trying to deal with COVID-19 , is in the chair in front of the screen; in the evening I am in front of a much larger screen watching the News, Netflix, Prime Video movies and Youtube. Stop for a News Flash - Terryl just ran into my daytime space and said, “How come we don’t get channel 485? It has tons of movies all classified by decade and genre?” In another flash I’m on a Chatline with Rogers and Megan is looking into it while I hold. After ten minutes Megan's typed answer arrives and I say to myself, ‘it’s always in the fine print.’ We learned that the channel 485 with its movies has always been there for us and are either rentable or free to our existing subscription.  As you know from previous posts m...

Human civilization has evolved one tragedy after another throughout its history. We are in our current status following wars, xenophobia, crime, corruption and disease inflicted in large part upon ourselves by ourselves. But still we survived these vicissitudes. Today, and after several weeks the world claims to be united in the cause to contain and eradicate COVID-19 . We have a communication ability with our telephones, our computers, our instant written messages using the Internet. Our ability to share collective information and knowledge with many proven systems reports to be reliable. But is it? Some spokespersons speak without the underlying knowledge to an equally ignorant populace who  follow these dictates, while the experts remain silent. That doesn't make sense to this writer, does it to you? COVID-19 is a world wide Pandemic, whose validity was proclaimed March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Only a few weeks ago the Coronavirus condition was first ...

The word InRefinement did not exist (in my lexicon) when I resigned and left my occupation at Arthurs Jones Lithographing Ltd. in 1998. It found its place in my mind many years later when all of which I attended had funnelled into a bucket that I wished to name for one reason. It found its place in my vocabulary because I began to write about my experiences. I suppose when one looks at one's life, and at a time that has taken a dramatic change in course it's nice to have a name for it; indeed, a name that could be construed as a corporation called InRefinement Inc. is even better.  That's it. It was my new workplace. My new job and career paid handsomely, while it never increased my net worth, it paid off in other ways. I want this piece of writing to focus on the attributes, well being, skills and peaceful demeanour this period of time has offered to me. On The Beach in Dubai Terryl and Ihor (pronounced Igor) on board Azamara I place photographs in ordin...