I am hoping mental health experts will soon differentiate LOUD AND CLEAR between diseases such as schizophrenia, clinical depression, and bipolar disease, and those diseases that are being loosely defined as “mental health issues” Lumping them all together denigrates the desperate need for medical research (and tons of money) into treating diseases which scramble the…

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SUMMER MEMORIES? I listen to the far-offshriekingof Canada geesegliding acrossa rapidly darkening sky.This morningat dawnthere was a thinskimming of froston the windshield. Autumn hasapproachedbut I still retainexpectations ofsummer. Memories ofJuly and Augusthave not yet gelledfirmly,in my psyche.Did I enjoy,our brief period ofwarmthunder the sun? With my shovelI expose,the rounded shapesof carrots,beets and onions,unwilling to releasetheir…

LOOK UP The children of the world liveLet us give them a futureTo where the souls forgiveLook up from the cull-de-sacof your culture. Join together hand in handWalk the streets of time foreverDeny the self to understandLook up from the cull-de-sacOf your culture. Oh, build up stars of heavenRaise the temple and the alterWith the…

My son is a creative being, always composing songs, poems, stories, and paintings. I like this poem. When The Body Burns Oh, the fire of awakeningThe waters that make me wholeAfter the flame has takenWhen the body burns toashes – all that’s leftis the soul. The eternal vision arisingThe tale of no’time is toldthe poets…

“Life is like living on the edge of a knife.” So the Haida elders say. “Walk carefully or you will fall off As you travel along the way” Mahdi was destined to follow its edge To a land that was far away And marry the woman he truly loved. We celebrate their marriage today Congratulations…

We left home on June 16th and returned on June 28th, the longest vacation I have been on in many years. And one of the very few vacations where the emphasis was not on visiting any particular friend or relative. George had wanted to join one of the Prince Rupert Adventure boat tours that were…

It’s 3 o’clock in the morning I awaken realising the email from Westjet confirming my son’s airline flight, purchased with a travel voucher from Avion, after canceling booked flights for me and him at Christmas time, did not look right. It only lists a Reservation Code, along with his name and flight data. How can…