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Article 22

Sometimes, a little rot makes its way through the tooth's defenses, and starts to eat away at the soft and vulnerable dentin. From the outside, everything looks normal, but inside the tooth is...

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Saturday Morning Time Warp.

I currently do not have daily internet, so there is some time delay in my posts. For example, the first post I wrote last Thursday, but couldn't post it Saturday. I will try to get a post up every...

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Foundations.

Around the beginning of June, a lovely young woman walked into my work, and we briefly spoke. As soon as we begin talking, a rare thing happened- I stopped spinning around in my head. I was suddenly...

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A Love Letter to the World, Written Well Past My Bedtime.

I want to create. I want to exhale and have galaxies form in the wake of my breath. The tension of the potentially is a tightly wound ball near my heart. It is love. Creation and love blur in my...

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One Week.

So its Monday, and it has been about a week since I started this blog, and about a week since I made the commitment to this new way of living. I mentioned earlier that I had a strategy, but never...

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Things to do, life to live.

I have a friend who is dying of cancer. She is only a few weeks younger then my mother, and has two children of her own. She is days away from the end of her life. It is clear to me that “July 2008”...

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Article 16

In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Gonzo is described as being "One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too...

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Fire.

Last night we had a fire for Mary. A few dozen of us came together, lit a fire, and Mary came outside, probably for the last time in her life. The lighting of a ceremonial fire is rooted in Haida...

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Smile.

There is a lot I want to write about, I know I can't get it all in one post.Mary is dead now.She died shortly after midnight, July 16th, 2008. She was forty-six years old.On July 15th, 2008, my mother...

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For this Week

It is late, but I have another list of things to do this week. I like this practice, I am going to continue using it.-Do push-ups every day (already not completed).-Read a chapter of Alexander's...

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Jot Notes From a Funeral

We came in waves, sad waves creating the current to carry Mary from the world of the living.The coffin seems charged. To touch it is to touch something between worlds. Something defiantly not Mary, yet...

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Processes

So I finally bawled. I’ve known a good cry was coming since Mary died, and it just took five days to happen. It’s amazing how therapeutic crying is. I feel so much better, just from five minuets of...

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Serial Experiments Zander

Please pardon the delay in updates. I have happy news- my new laptop has arrived! It has taken a few days to get set up, and I am still working at making everything work right, but I am very pleased,...

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Almost a Sizzle

I've spent a lot of time recently spinning. I have been sucked into the computer again, sucked in strongly. Sabotage. No need for me to be surprised, and I am not. No commitment lasts forever, but one...

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Article 8

So I have been sick, and I have been stressed. And when I am not feeling good, I don't want to post. I tell myself I should, but it just doesn't happen. Right now I am feeling pretty stressed about our...

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Soon

Yesterday was my last day of work. Holy hell, its hard to believe I've finished my first real job.Let me say, it was a damn cushy job. Fun, easy, educational, unstressful, excellent management, awesome...

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Days

Only days left on Haida Gwaii. It seems like time is just flying by. still feel good, still feel really good, really glad to be finished work.It is something I really enjoy, to be able to dictate what...

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Last Night on Haida Gwaii

So this is my last night on Haida Gwaii. There is so much I want to write about.Yesterday was the opening for the Haida Heritage Centre. For a lot of the time I was oddly detached from what was...

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Alive In Ottawa

I just want to say that I am in Ottawa, doing well, and I have a LOT to blog about. The bus ride, the experience of arriving, what has happened since... I just don't have the time or energy for it...

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Trip

Here I am in the Montreal Airport. Weird to think of myself as on my own.What is strongest in my mind, is the images of my family. The last glance I had as I took my leave. Now those sights are like...

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