As I sit here, bundled up in my thrifted beige cardigan, sipping my dark roast French Pressed coffee, I look outside to see the snowflakes gently drifting to the earth. I hold the warm mug in both my hands, smelling the sweet aroma of arabica beans, grown in Indonesia, and I close my eyes and […]
Winnipeg, with it’s on-again-off-again spurt of development and re-development has recently completed it’s overhaul of the Downtown Library. Adjacent to the new MTS Centre, the Millennium Library is now complete. With the re-construction, the addition of a fourth floor has really opened up the place. The South-east wall is one of glass and steel and […]
If I could open my mouth
Wide enough for a marching band to march out
They would make your name sing
And bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings
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Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half-empty or half-full
It slowly rises: […]
Said she [Rachel]: “Oh Beatrice, true praise of God,
Why not assist this man whose love for you
Is such that he has left the vulgar throng?
Can you not hear the anguish in his cry?
Can you not see the death that threatens him
Above that stream that flows not to the sea?
“Never on earth was anyone so […]
In the last two weeks, I’ve managed to (in no particular order):
•Acquire a job as a barista at Starbucks, in a Chapters bookstore, no less
•Learn the feats and abilities to manage an espresso bar, cold […]
So, as it so happened, Tim (Penner) and I were planning to see Ocean’s Eleven (1960), the Frank Sinatra version - you know, the original. It was playing at the Ellice Street Theatre, a recent business to the west end of the city, they play free movies, four nights a week. They go in themes, […]