Robert L. Peters

18 October 2018

Rich Sparks… when the world needs a chuckle.

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Out there in cyberspace…

I have recently met an inspiring illustrator/cartoonist on Facebook (yes, it happens). I find his work to be insightful, funny, sardonic, often cheeky — quite brilliant, really — a balm for troubled times. You can see more of Mr. Sparks’ work here.


17 October 2018

As of today, cannabis is legal across Canada…

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Coast to coast to coast...

Today, Canada became the largest country in the world and the third (following Portugal and Uruguay) with a legal national marijuana marketplace. Read more here…

My photo in September 2017, Cox Bay Beach, Tofino (British Columbia).


10 October 2018

Dear BIGOTS, Dear racists…

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Dear-homophobes

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Well done, Scotland! Well done, Police Scotland… (more here, and a video here).


3 October 2018

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

Ammon Hennacy


1 October 2018

Old woman | Young lady

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Most people can see one or the other… and “switch” back and forth.


29 September 2018

“American Justice”

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Source: Bruce MacKinnon | The Chronicle Herald, Halifax


24 September 2018

How can you mend a broken heart?

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Thanks to Stefan Serezliev, a professor in Sofia, Bulgaria… (who I got to know in a police station in Istanbul 14 years ago — long story). Original image source unknown.


23 September 2018

Timely, quite deft, often on the nose…

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Digging-in-the-Dirt

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It’s been a while since I shared the (sometimes acerbic) works of Mr. Fish


13 September 2018

Oldest known drawing by human hands…?

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Blombos Cave (near Capetown), South Africa

“Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by about 30,000 years.”

“We knew a lot of things Homo sapiens could do, but we didn’t know they could do drawings back then,” said Christopher Henshilwood, an archaeologist from the University of Bergen in Norway and lead author of the study…

(full story here, or here)


15 August 2018

Flesh-coloured…

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(original source unknown)


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