The Power & The Glory
Mornings are darker now and my dreams more vivid because I’m somehow closer to sleep when I wake. This morning I woke from a strange dream.
In it some of my neighbours were drawing power from my hydro panel and in doing so they mistakenly fried the walls off my house. Just the contents, frame and [...]
The Path With No Markers
Natalie Goldberg begins her book, Thunder and Lightening, with a warning.
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. Bareboned you are on the path with no markers, only the skulls of those who never made it back … Now that you have been warned, let me [...]
Be Brave
“… credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming … who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high [...]
maybe
My daughter was born in Canada. She’s lived her entire life in the same two-storey bungalow in our quiet, middle-class neighbourhood. She just entered her second year of University where she’s studying to become a French teacher. She’ll be nineteen in less than a month and her choices are innumerable, her future bright and promising.
Now [...]
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