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Years ago a man I met at a sun dance gave me his copy of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet. It was an act of generosity I have [...]
May 7, 2012
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I have written lately about my ongoing meditation about what I will do with my education once I have completed my doctorate. I am strongly [...]
April 30, 2012
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Have you ever noticed that when you are thinking about something -really sinking your mental teeth into it- how it starts showing up everywhere? [...]
April 21, 2012
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Lately I’ve found that I want to be more direct on behalf of what I believe and what I see. I am becoming more and more captivated by the [...]
April 16, 2012
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When Dr. King was killed he was fighting for the right of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee to earn a living wage. Here’s a short [...]
April 4, 2012
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When I first came to Canada in 2006 I lived in Hamilton, Ontario. Below my high rise apartment was a stream that drained the Niagara Escarpment [...]
April 1, 2012
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I have to say that I am very moved by the responses I’ve been receiving to the poetry I have been posting this month. I had hoped the poems [...]
March 28, 2012
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When I was much younger I used to write poetry all of the time. Somewhere along the way I stopped doing so. I think part of the reason was I came [...]
March 6, 2012
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If you have been reading this blog lately you know that the debate (and the struggle) over the two pipelines (Keystone XL and Enbridge) has been [...]
February 13, 2012
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“Justice, nothing but justice, that is the sum of my argument.” -P.J. Proudhon [...]
January 28, 2012