Haikus for Fast month March 2021 God’s all-embracingLove, like whipped creamOn strawberries Yesterday’s snowstormA desolate memoryToday the sun shines! A rose by any other nameIs still a rose,Something like religion The unwavering soulShines with a brillianceThat transends the night Eyes feast upon beauty.Ears absorb music.Mans’ art, gifted by God The sun rises in the east,As…

Experts believe that sugar consumption is a major cause of many chronic diseases, as well as obesity: WEIGHT GAIN INCREASE RISK OF HEART DISEASE BEEN LINKED TO ACNE RISK OF TYPE2 DIABETES RISK OF CANCER RISK OF DEPRESSION ACCELERATE SKIN AGING PROCESS INCREASE CELLULAR AGING DRAINS YOUR ENERGY CAN LEAD TO FATTY LIVER OTHER HEALTH…

In a world become impatient to possess material things And where ‘image’ is promoted for the power that it brings, Can we just pause a moment, and reflect upon the past And consider for the moment how long these things will last. For the things of real value were not built in a day But…

A pall upon the world’s a common theme Our lives are not at all as they have been A scourge has plagued the human race it seems A killer known as Covid plus nineteen We’ve hidden in our homes almost a year We’re distanced from the loved ones we hold dear We thought at first…

My son lives in Vancouver and each morning buses to the Gallery Gachet which has been relocated to Hastings Street on the Downtown Eastside. Strangely and thankfully,  amongst the addicted and mentally ill who roam and sleep upon these desolate streets, the Covid 19 virus has not appeared in proportion to the seemingly unprotected  population…

Musings from The Nineteen-eighties. [Before I Joined A Religion] I discovered these lines on yellowed scraps of paper in a bundle of musings I had typed out on an old manual typewriter back in about 1983. I had been following the writings of Charles Lindbergh, world-famous pilot, and in later years, an environmentalist. His writings…

In an earlier life, I was able to multi-task quite well. With a baby on my hip and a child or two toddling behind, I was able cook, launder and , sometimes, even hold down a job creating meals for hungry loggers and sawmill workers. Now my short term memory only permits me one thought…

Thanks to my wonderful Chinese-Canadian first cousins, I have learned much about Chinese-Canadian culture and history – which is also mine. It has only been since the end of the Second World War that our ancesters, originally from across the sea, were able to become Canadian citizens in a country where many of them were…

Those with severe mental/emotional disorders can relate to an opression similar to that of racism. Bullying by authority and others has always been rampant toward the mentally ill and those in the throes of drugs and alcohol addiction. I recall seeing a drunken indigenous person being thrown into a paddy wagon years ago. The door…

BRAIN CHEMICAL DISORDERS by Doris Ray [ this was a series of blogs several of which were published in the book “Making Noise: Northern Women, Caring & In/visible Dis/abilities” edited by Si Transken & Lynn Box of Prince George BC in 2007] On Being a Mother Sometimes I think we mothers have no control at…