A Memory of Winter
It bears repeating that everything moves in a cycle: birth-life-death hot-warm-cold everything comes around again and as the summer sun and the smog force me to stay inside to write and to ponder...
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A Show of Hands
This is our living breathing faith and it is anchored by the rat-tat-tat of the snare, the thump-thump-thump of the bass, and the searing tones of electric guitars. Its scriptures are written on...
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Howl
The best minds continue to be destroyed by the advancing madness of an all-consuming and boundless greed that favours the fortunate few.
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Gently Weeping
flesh on metal fingers pressed against fretted strings— notes instead of tears. pentatonic minor scales three chords going back and forth— the story of my life: It sounds a lot like yours
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Superhero
Comic book heroes are fine on the page but real world heroes who spring to life before your eyes are best.
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Dandelion
If the answer is blowing in the wind, don’t ask any more questions, stop and smell the flowers instead.
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Opiate
The difference between the waking world and the realm of nightmares is that the latter exists as a monochrome— and the absence of colours terrifies and renders everything in the mind as...
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Hockey Night
He shoots, he scores and— We forget all about melting ice caps and rising sea levels, freak weather, famine and nuclear disasters, and all the horrible things that we should be doing...
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It Takes a Village to Raise an Idiot
(The image above is of Don Middleton, former Former Grand Marshall in the Toronto Pride Parade and one of the elder statesmen in our community who paved the way for many of us...
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