Dr. Sarah Warren is psychologist and addictions expert who understands our addiction to oil and how to go into “recovery.” She appreciates what it takes to move from denial to awareness into action, because she’s lived it. She knows that…
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centre of the universe: It’s Been 21 Years, One Month, Three Weeks, and One Day
Roughly, or thereabouts, I figure, since I last saw you. Of course, I am forgetting the time I saw you in passing at the top of the escalators in Place Riel when you told me you were studying education and … Continue reading →
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~Lois Whyse
Continue reading350 or bust: Love Makes The World Go ‘Round
Hope you are enjoying your Saturday – here’s a cute video that shows mother cat and her kitten snuggling together during a nap. Here’s hoping you fit in some cuddling and napping during your day too!
Continue reading350 or bust: Gentlemen – Happy Father’s Day!
“It is a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you; when he comes down from the mountain and you see he’s this man with weakness. And you love him as a whole being, not as a figurehead.“ ~Robin Williams in …
Continue readingWe are all in this together…
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert SchweitzerWell life has a way of p…
Continue readingAnd life is like a song (at last)
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Continue readingBoarder control: Eyes wide shut
"Love, even old love nestles itself into the space that two people hold each other with their eyes."
These were my words, just a half dozen pages back, as I reflected on seeing HB again. reflected on what it felt like to feel love again, reflected on how I thought I had forgotten.
And I have.
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"You’re heart is so closed M. you can’t even look at me" she said to me last …
Continue readingWaterloo station
Love never dies, does it? It was so good to see hb again. It reminded me what it feels like to really love someone. I think I had forgotten. But it also reminded me that love can only take you so far.
And in my case, it seems to take me to the tube s…
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So, my loyal readers, I’m sure that you’ve all been keeping up to date on the activities. Well, the police went overboard (like I predicted) and brutalized SO many people. My girlfriend was part of the group that got boxed in on Queen and Spadina on Su…
Continue readingToronto!
So I just spent an AMAZING ten days in Toronto. We had a Drug User Groups summit and we officially created the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD). We wrote our mission statement etc. and got everything underway. The overarching goal o…
Continue readingExcuses!
So hey. I apologize again for the shabby posting as of late, but here’s the reason:Yes, that’s right, a girl! Can you believe it? I know, you’ve been there with me through a couple of them now! But for real — this one could be the one. And I really me…
Continue readingMars at Night
Inhale thick smoke in a pensive positionAnd gaze unabashedly at skies overhead, wonderingAs I always do, without censor, at the originsSome nights my view is clear, others it is foggyAnd when it’s clear so much is explained, in thatPainstakingly instru…
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