it runs through my veins, like dirty water
like the current of an oil-stained river.
i never chose to be so afflicted
it’s just the way that it was directed.
Author: jsauve
Full-time technology geek, part-time thinker/writer/reader/learner.
Dear Fellow Canadians,
The writ has been dropped, to use the common idiom; or, more precisely, the Instrument of Advice has been delivered to the Governor General, and Canadians have once again been summoned to the polls to cast their votes.
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It’s a beautiful day here in southern Alberta; partly cloudy, 19℃, a light breeze. The grass is finally showing its hues, slowly poking through the greyness of the winter past; trees are in bud, and already have that light, springtime green. I sit outside, sipping on a cup of coffee and smoking a pipe, soaking it all in.
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Everyone should know Nasrin Sotoudeh.
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This time it was New Zealand. Quiet, unassuming, remote New Zealand – to most people, simply the location that Peter Jackson used as Middle Earth for his Lord of the Rings trilogy. Nothing ever happens there.
Except now it’s ugly, too.
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On Feb 14th, a letter I wrote to the local paper was published; I was making a point about how the public discourse, especially on social media, is descending into something akin to a mob mentality.
Continue readingGot published in my local paper; kind of cool!
https://www.cochraneeagle.com/article/mob-mentality-is-out-of-control-20190214
I love this story. There is wisdom in First Nation peoples that we can certainly use!
I am a male, therefore a pathology…
A String of Days 