I didn't know Lorne Greene had done so much with radio and broadcasting. He must have been an early adopter in his generation. These days where might he be in broadcasting? I bet he'd have a podcast and a web radio show, at the very least. But, no one lives forever. I remember his voice.

Canada's Walk of Fame - Lorne Green He was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2015.

Lorne Greene was born Lyon Himan Green on February 12, 1915, in Ottawa, Ontario, to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, Dora (née Grinovsky) and Daniel Green, a shoemaker. He hand an older brother who died in the 1918 flu epidemic, no other siblings. His parents wanted him to be a concert violinist. He spent summers teaching drama at Camp Arowhon (1934?) in Algonquin Provincial Park.

I wanted to do a wildlife series. I kept remembering those days in Algonquin Park, drifting along in the bottom of a canoe, and I wanted to transfer that feeling to the viewers. - Lorne Greene

When I was 16, I discovered wildlife. My father took me to a place called Algonquin Park in Northern Ontario - it has some 1,600 lakes. - Lorne Greene

In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist. - Lorne Greene

I was dragged kicking and screaming into a high-school play then discovered it was fun! - Lorne Greene

He studied chemical engineering at Queen's University. Then switched his major to English and French so he could perform in either language in theatre productions and the drama guild, for which he produced, directed and acted. At CFRC, the campus radio station and one of the oldest operating radio stations in the world, where he experimented with live broadcasts and vocal diction.

He became the chief news broadcaster for the CBC from 1939 to 1942. He narrated documentaries for the National Film Board, including Churchill's Island which won an award for best short documentary. During that time he invented a reverse chronometer (a backward-running watch) for broadcasters, known as the Greene Stopwatch. This allowed news segments to end with split-second precision.

He served in the Second World War as a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After the war he co-founded the Jupiter Theatre an taught at the Academy of Radio Arts. In 1950, he was hired to host Newsmagazine. He also acted at the Stratford Theatre. He also sang, he had a mid-60’s hit, Ringo.

Best known for his roles in Bonanza (Ben Cartwright) and Battlestar Galactica. He also appeared in the mini-series Roots in 1977. In 1980 he took on the role of North-West Mounted Police officer, Sam Steele, in Klondike Fever.

Made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1969. Awarded the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement at the Gemini Awards in 1987, and Canada's Walk of Fame in 2015 after his death.

He was married twice: first to Rita Hands of Toronto in 1938, with whom he had twins, and later to Nancy Deale in 1961, with whom he had one child.

He was involved with environmental conservation through his series Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness in 1982 until 1987. Co-produced by Greene’s son, Charles.

Deceased in 1987, at age 72. Queen’s University honors him through the Lorne Greene Award for outstanding theatrical achievement. Canada Post featured him in the Canadians in Hollywood stamp series in 2006.

A man's never wrong doing what he thinks is right. - Lorne Greene

Learn about life and when fate takes you by the hand, go. Do it. Dare to do. - Lorne Greene

We used our brains to create and program them, and now we have to continue to use our brains to prevent computers from taking over our lives. -Lorne Greene

I find that the harder I work, the younger I feel. - Lorne Greene

I've never gotten into a heated argument with people. Heat diffuses reason. -Lorne Greene

• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Lorne Greene
• History of Canadian Broadcasting - Lorne Greene 1915 - 1987

If you hear bad things about me that means I'm alive. People only talk good things about dead people.

That's true too often. But, its up to each person every day to do differently. Easy to complain and blame others for how the world is... what have you done yourself to make it different/ better? Not pointing at you and yet it is each individual who can make a difference in small ways. Different choices. Maybe keep criticisms back and find something good to say instead. Or just give a friendly smile even on a day when you are stressed, down, etc yourself.

Also, it is true that a smile makes them wonder what you're up to.

You ever want to jump on someone's post and be like, "shut your fraudulent lying ass the fuck up".

First, that is not written well. Anything with "be like" in that way sounds childish. The way the quote is written is too disrespectful and begins any conversation with antagonism. So, whatever you point is, it will likely be lost in the aggression you bring.

Secondly, it has to matter enough. Most of the time it doesn't. Either it will start a fire I don't want to bother with, ignite a troll, or just take up too much of my time and energy and not change a thing, or make any difference. Confronting people isn't always worth doing. Most of the time I can find something else I'd rather do than headbutt a wall.

Self-sabotage is sometimes the nervous system choosing a pain it can schedule over a hope it cannot control.

Reasons I do things:

• Someone said I couldn't.
• Someone said I shouldn't.
• I got told no.
• Out of spite.
• I was left unsupervised.
• I got bored.
• Pure stubbornness.
• To prove a point.
• Cause I said I would.
• For the plot.
• Cause I can.
• To see if I can.

I wish that was always the case. Most of the time its because someone needed, demanded, asked me. So many things I (we?) do that we don't want to do everyday. Looking after your parents as they get older and need help means you are never unsupervised. In the quiet times, at night, I remember I am still my own person. Someone who could have a list like the one above.

Nobody is important enough for you to be putting your energy into proving them wrong.

I hate when people say, "If you love me you'll accept me as I am". Loving you doesn't mean tolerating your refusal to develop emotional intelligence and heal your dysfunction. If you loved you, you would do the work so people who love you don't feel forced to walk away.

Sometimes people pretend that you're a bad person so they don't feel guilty for how they treated you.

Be careful about your words because you don't know how many times it repeats in someone's head.

I know every generation has their class struggles, but let me tell you about the summer of 1990 when Supersoakers hit the market and only a few kids could afford them and the rest of us were hunted for sport.

How did we end up in a nightmare timeline where groceries have become both a luxury item and a health hazard?

The universe is not punishing you. It is not blessing you. It is not controlling you. The universe responds to the vibration you are creating. Think happy and happiness will come to you. Think negatively and negativity will come to you. What we put in the universe, we will get back like an echo.

My days are backwards. I wake up tired and go to bed wide awake.

I don't follow people I don't like. I don't keep track of people I can't stand. It's wild to me that there are folks who religiously hate follow you and stalk your every move to attack. Please go heal and go to therapy.

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I know someone who didn't care who followed her. Let them watch, she said.

Instead of giving a man the benefit of the doubt, how about we doubt the benefit of a man.

Never leave when it gets hard. Leave when it gets inconsiderate, inconsistent, and disrespectful.

You're a ghost driving a meat skeletong made from stardust, riding a rock, hurling through space. Fear nothing.

The best thing I ever did for myself was learn how to be a monster, an absolute monster then, how to control it.

On Facebook someone posted: Have you ever lost all respect for someone, like damn that's who you really are?

I commented:

No, because people are more than just one thing, one dimensional. We don't have to agree about everything or see everything the same way. Unless someone is very aggressive and disrespectful, I am not expecting everyone else in the world to be all sweetness and light. But you can treat people, plants, the planet itself with a little patience, if not kindness.

Other than someone like a serial killer, someone very abusive, violent, aggressive, I think I can stand by what I wrote. I hope I can. It has been tested a time or three, so far.

My Mother likes to drive around looking, studying, homeless people and drug addicts wandering around in the town/city here. I don't understand. My first instinct is to avoid them. I don't seek them out for conversations. I don't feel hugely sorry for them or really want to know the story of their life. It is enough to manage my own life with its ups, downs and sideways.

Often, like now, she will just go off in the car and park on the main street where the homeless drug addicts and whatever else they are, gather. Here it is right at the intersection where McDonalds, payday loans, a pot store (sold in stores here in Ontario) and a pharmacy handing out free drugs for addicts (also currently an Ontario thing), are. Handy, one stop shopping for them.

If we are out shopping for groceries, something she needs from the hardware store, etc. I will be in the car too. Mom doesn't walk so well these days so I'm there to do the shopping, the walking around part. Almost every time she goes for a look at her "homies and druggies" taking me along with her, like it or not. I don't. I don't like anything about it.

Why do some people have this fascination with the down and out? Also known as street people, but you could assume that was anyone walking along a street. It isn't about people watching, or it is a specialized version of it.

If I look into it I may not like what I find, so I'm putting it off.