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Traffic noise amidst the winds of change

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The life was sucked out of me on 12th Avenue. The incessant traffic noise I wrote about on more than one occasion in my journal. It didn’t ebb and flow there but rather marched no cannon balled and madly screamed back and forth along that magnificent tree lined East Vancouver Street.
I remember mere moments of [...]

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Seasonal Kaleidoscopes or Why I Like Winter

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Each Winter I seem to migrate no hibernate into my dreams, put paint brush to hand and begin painting floral and embellished little artworks. Stroke after stroke I load the paintbrush and simply paint. I think it dawned on me that much of my recent angst was due to not letting my mind flow freely [...]

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Just Imagine touching the Intangible

You can’t say that you don’t crave escape from the every day, the mundane, the mediocre lifestyle that is your life (at times). We all get those moments where we want to plunge into another reality, someone else’s life perhaps, another world where things make sense and you are not left wondering why; things are [...]

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Day Dreams

Deep guttural industrial clanks and crashes escape the fog of night traveling upwards into the residential neighborhood where I reside, from the shipyard, refinery and paper mill lining the coast.

The fog is thick.
It is near impossible to see across the street at night. The only light that pierces is those yellow and orange ones that [...]

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Three Psycho Snowmen or How to Identify Which Drug Your Snowman is Taking

The Opiate Addict

He has very tiny pupils. His snow is dirty yet he appears to be happy. He chooses to dress in overly bright decorative scarves that have been out of style for 15 years.
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The Amphetamines Addict

Notice how happy, bright and shiny this snowman is! Look closely at his dilated pupils and dryed out mouth. [...]

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The Secret to Distilling Fog

Fog surrounds every fiber of Saint John this night. The city is quiet. Only the street lights are visible a block away. I look out the deck doors to the trees illuminated by one particular street light; they say nothing yet tell me so much.
I was born and raised here. My mind was elsewhere. It [...]

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Stress and Jessica

Stressica will see y’all in Saint John eh!
I fly out at 23:55 tonight (Tuesday) en route to Saint John from Vancouver.

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Saturday and Sunday – Final 2 Days of the Moving BACK-EAST Sale.

This weekend marks the last weekend I will be living in Vancouver BC. It is also the last two of six days of the Moving BACK-EAST Sale to find great things for sale in my apartment & on the deck.
Time – Noon to 4:00
When – Saturday & Sunday
Date – May 26th & 27th
Buzz #402 at [...]

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It is 25 cent night at the Moving BACK-EAST sale – Day 4

Here is the Craigslist link with today’s information (Wednesday) on the Moving BACK-EAST sale.
And that is me standing by the roses on the deck taken late *last summer (2006) by my ex, Eric.
I still love you dude.

*I am missing camera parts so I can’t take a pic of myself standing by the this year’s rose [...]

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Day 2 – yelling at people on neighboring penthouse decks

The moving BACK-EAST sale day 2
UPDATED – items no longer available are crossed out
Today and tomorrow (Monday & Tuesday) – rain or shine
Afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00
Evening from 6:00 to 8:00
Buzz #402 at 2228 Franklin St.
Vancouver BC
Click here for the google map to get to my place.

Yesterday despite the torrential rainfalls Vancouver is experiencing I [...]

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The Moving BACK-EAST sale

Moving BACK-EAST Sale
I move East to New Brunswick in 9 days.
Come to my Penthouse Apartment Sale in EastVancouver on Sunday (today – rain or shine).

I have a large rooftop deck garden that must go. I am taking offers on everything including the contents of the apartment. Haggle with me if you like until we [...]

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Losing cats on airplanes and selling it off

I arrived with two suitcases and two carry-ons four years ago. Now, I have a fully furnished two bedroom apartment with mature potted greenery growing outside on the deck.
Going
going
gone.
I need to purchase a large cat pet carrier for Missy as she will be traveling in the airplane’s baggage compartment. The last time she flew in [...]

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About picking caterpillars off friends

You stare. It stares. It begins.
The bugs march to and fro throughout this dwelling high and low. Be
ware deviants.
So much paper. Must be cleaned. How does one clean paper? Sweep it?
Pest control arrived and delivered the chemical.
Dousing nooks and crannies. Angry? Yes.
Angry at you? No.
Dealing with a nuisance.
You know, I didn’t grow up with [...]

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About learning to take things seriously when needed and hapazardly when things are not that important

Switching on intelligence is at most difficult when one is faced with making life’s decisions. Being ruled by the heart can be whimsical at times yet underrated as a form of intelligence most of the time. Written in anger, not really. We need to believe there is something larger than ourselves to exist. You are [...]

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Mindfulness and reaction time

I want to control my own mind.
Think about that sentence.
Before the addiction there was anxiety. The addiction came after. What does this mean? I am nearing 18 months of sobriety from GHB addiction. Is this important to write out; to meander upon and discuss with oneself? Thinking it out does NOT work for me. I [...]

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Rain – 21.03.2007

Oh how I wish for the rain to cease. Why not rain, one day like crazy. Thunderclaps and lightening. Throw it down anyway you wish. Then, let us see the sunshine for a full two days. Two days, maybe three? OMG could you imagine if the sun came out for three days in [...]

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Into the containers go seeds soil water and 10-55-10

The Sunday before last I worked outside in my garden clearing away debris. The flowers are popping up through the remnant grossness of Vancouver winter.
I readied soil to plant seeds in. I planted 16 each of red leaf, green leaf and romaine lettuce. I dug out the red onion seeds I had harvested from last [...]

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Citizen Journalism with Travis Smith

Citizen Journalism – Travis Smith – Hop studios
My notes from Northern Voice – unedited from earlier today as my computer felt it necessary to incessantly drain my laptop battery while online at the conference. I typed in text-edit happily.
Editor – term came into existence in 1712

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The sickness and the voice

On Monday morning I awoke with a very sore throat at 8:30am. I was shivering. I went pee, drank a glass of water and went back to bed. I awoke at 2:30pm drenched in sweat. I thought good, the fever broke.
On Tuesday morning I awoke with the same very sore throat accompanied by swollen glands. [...]

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The musical choice of the evening was Hip Hop

As many times as the days pass is how many times have I wanted to write…

…last Friday evening I went dancing at a club in Gastown, Vancouver. A few things struck me about how this particular club operated. The Bouncer/Doorman, was accepting bribes to get in the door. We all payed him some money to [...]

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