February 2012
56 posts
“Humanity I love you
because you are perpetually
putting the secret of life
in...”
– E.E Cummings
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“I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from...”
– Sylvia Plath, written in 1949 at age 17
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The 5 Weirdest Reasons We Have Sex →
According to science (science or just theory?)
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The trouble with fate
My dad is sick and all I’ve been hearing is that god will spare him. That somehow god will take his hand and will walk him through this treacherous path. I’d like to know what physiotherapy school god went through and why he needs my prayer as payment (we have insurance, you know). I’m sick of the idea of this narcissistic god who continually needs us praying to him in order for our own lives to...
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has...”
– Maya Angelou
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First Call: BC Child & Youth Advocacy Coalition →
The Province of British Columbia has the highest rates of child poverty in the country. First Call: BC Child & Youth Advocacy Coalition tries to ensure that the rights of children and youth are upheld and that they are given opportunities and resources that they wouldn’t have otherwise. One of their most interesting projects is the Child Poverty Report Card. I encourage you to look it...
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– Catcher In the Rye, J.D. Salinger
They Call It Attempted Suicide
My brother’s girlfriend was not prepared for how much blood splashed out. He got home in time, but was angry about the mess she had made of his room. I stood behind, watching them turn into something manageable. Thinking how frightening it must have been before things had names. We say peony and make a flower out of that slow writhing. Deal with the horror of recurrence by calling it a million...
Traveling
If you travel alone, hitchhiking, sleeping in woods, make a cathedral of the moonlight that reaches you, and lie down in it. Shake a box of nails at the night sounds for there is comfort in your own noise. And say out loud: somebody at sunrise be distraught for love of me, somebody at sunset call my name. There will soon be company. But if the moon clouds over you have to live with disapproval....
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I double-check my reflection in plate glass & wonder, Am I passing another Lucky Thompson or Marion Brown cornered by a blue dementia, another dark-skinned man who woke up dreaming one morning & then walked out of himself dreaming? Did this one dare to step on a crack in the sidewalk, to turn a midnight corner & never come back whole, or did he try to stare down a look that...
I Would Steal Horses for you, if there were any left, give a dozen of the best to your father, the auto mechanic
in the small town where you were born and where he will die sometime by dark. I am afraid of his hands, which have rebuilt more of the small parts
of this world than I ever will. I would sign treaties for you, take every promise as the last lie, the last point after which we...
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Prime Minister’s Office Tries to Silence Pipeline... →
A Whistleblower’s Open Letter to the Citizens of Canada My name is Andrew Frank. I grew up in a small town in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia. My granddad taught me how to fish. My father was a well‐respected lawyer known for his unwavering integrity, and my mother was a favourite kindergarten teacher.Both have always impressed upon me the importance of telling the truth.Today, I am taking...
When I was in high school, I used to visit the... →
iampatmos:
When I was in high school, I used to visit the back room of a bookstore in the mall. It was the $2 book room and for a high school student with no job and an allowance of $20 a month, it was heaven. Of course, not all the books in there were good but I used to spend hours in there and always left with two or three that I ended up enjoying. I found some of my favorite books in there....
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering...”
– Elie Weisel
