to the value of our friendship
It looks to be self-serving to put 25 on the same page as words to say how Bud was a friend. Mental health is shaded with deep depression; not feeling anything is normal but unnatural. Many times it...
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25 the carnegie newsletter has helped save my life I fled toronto for the downtown eastside as though all the furies in my life were chasing me and I began living here in 1986 not long after Paul...
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poets since the machine christopher smart praying on his knees against it with ecstatic poems in the streets of london dying confined in a madhouse & james clarence mangan’s life of poems starving...
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Spirits are always with me My greatest joy is knowing ancestors are looking over my shoulder I feel the warmth of the sun I see the light in the dark My sweet Mr Moon I believe we were put on this...
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Your Diet Can Change The World Suppose you're the very conservative Conrad Black, multi-millionaire, former newspaper publisher, former convict, and now a t.v. star on the show 'Zoomer'. Well you...
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the general surgeon The better half of a bitter life leaves memories best served down the drain as the national anthem of a country once loved plays again and again where is PierreEliotTrudeau when you...
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So Sometime Back There in England We separated the Church and the State It being necessary - so they say So much power all in one bedroom Runnymede may have achieved its purpose However hard it was to...
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Time Again & again, we lose our special people Thoughts of never seeing them, again or in time It is not so We are going to find them at pearly gates where the waters flow and grass grows We will...
View ArticleThe Komagata Maru Incident
The Komagata Maru Incident Yet another brilliant, fun-filled evening with the eclectic Carnegie Theatre players. The troope, with only one run-through of the play, gamely delivered a riveting...
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Jaywalking One night years ago I was having a party at my place, then at 25th & Fraser. I had wine but no cigarettes. I always used to jaywalk, outrunning those cars. I saw the stop signal and then...
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From the Library The results are in! Voters at the Carnegie Library declared the Black-capped Chickadee as the clear winner. Thanks to all of you who came into the library to vote for your favourite...
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Tips for Tuesday Reciprocate – give back to those who give be grateful – always give’m more’n Try to understand..you know… think walk a few blocks in my moccs show you shit you never wanted to know...
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PRAYERS HUMBLING YOURSELF MY OLD MAN FRIEND FROM BROOKS TAUGHT ME HOW TO PRAY EAT DIRT TAKE THE EARTH SWALLOW THAT OF WHICH YOU ARE REMEMBER YOUR HEART BEATS OUT THE SAME ENERGY AS OUR HOME THIS PLANET...
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Wall of Sea Spray Winds whip up wall of spray from energetic, energized polluted waters off Stanley Park this healthy liquid slap in face rejoins me with the human race Other vivid animal species grand...
View ArticlePEOPLE BECOMING MACHINES
PEOPLE BECOMING MACHINES headphones chain so many people as they stride by barely seeing the Sun Moon Cloud Art-gallery in Sky they hear no wind, no birdsong at all So to say "hello" or "good morning"...
View ArticleHello My Name Is God
Hello My Name Is God God is a child who believes what is told We are the temptation More mirrors welcomed. Stephen Belkin
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Feelings How does one tell To feel, care or share Open your heart Laughter is the best medicine Crying or yelling by the water It cleanses your body & soul Share your emotions with someone It hurts...
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Tiny Feet Royal emperor on his throne smoothes his beard mumbles tiny feet, tiny feet. Exquisite dancer swings her body teases her skirt. Emperor giggles drools in his cups sees her underwear, little...
View ArticleâExpress Your Voiceâ HISTORY OF FOOT BINDING
“Express Your Voice” at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre When I was a child, I wanted to join a choir. In the 1960’s, in school in Hong Kong, we had to audition. I was not chosen....
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Bud Osborn – A Lifetime Tenacious, fantastic crusading warrior for the poor, the destitute, the downtrodden, the put-upon, the homeless, the hungry.. the list of people’s unjust situations was endless....
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