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Monday, 30 June 2008
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Sleep Through The Static
By Jack Johnson
see relatedi'm drinking my last limonic fanta...there's something you must understand...i fell in love with the stuff when i was in poland a year ago...thus breaking my rule about not drinking carbonated beverages...this last limonic fanta has traveled...when cor moved back to canada from poland last august, she brought 3 bottles of it with her...which she then stashed in her luggage when she came to visit me in t. bay last september...upon her arrival i promptly drank the first one...savouring it's tart, tingly feeling in my mouth...and the other 2 bottles? i stuck it in the back of my fridge...i ended up sharing one with a friend whom i thought simply had to experience this...and the last one? 7 months later if found itself in the back of my mum and dad's fridge...it was one of the first things i unpacked after i moved home...i was saving it for ?? i'm not really sure what...the right moment i guess...then tonight. almost three months later, mum confessed that she thinks she broke the seal on it cause she thought it was lemon juice...so...i guess tonight's just as good as time as any...i am sad, because i've never seen the stuff in canada or the us...but all good things must come to an end, eh?...i think limonic fanta (if i ever come across it again) will always whisper of my time in poland...of a time when i craved the peace of anonymity...of a time spent with sisters...of a time when, for a short while, it seemed time stopped...and i simply accepted the moment for what it was...of a time when i was caught off guard by a simple offer of friendship...i smile, when i think of poland...to me it holds beauty, for i was not there long enough for the charm and adventure to be washed away by the realities of life...but that is fine with me...i think we all need places, memories, glimpses like that to store away...if simply just for a reason to smile...
Tuesday, 01 April 2008
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Billy Joel Greatest Hits: Vol. 1-2 (2CD)
By Billy Joel
see relatedsome things are just better left unsaid.
Monday, 21 January 2008
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Fall and Winter
By Jon Foreman
see related...he calls her sofea…even though that is not her name…he wholeheartedly believes it is her name…she gave up ages ago correcting him…his aging mind cannot remember her real name…though it remembers that he met her father, once…her quiet, reticent father…who for no reason would or should stick in anyone’s mind…he mentions it every time he sees her…that time he met her father…and then he would end their conversations with ‘well, take care, sofea’…and would just walk away…it was a rather a strange name for her…one she would roll around in her mind for the rest of the day…it sounded very Russian to her…though she did not know if Russia was indeed the origin of the name or not…sofea…a Russian name given by an Aboriginal elder to a Canadian girl with british roots…she would not forget it for a long time…
Monday, 24 December 2007
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Noel
By Josh Groban
i'll be home for christmas
see relatedi suppose it is time to write something new on here...everytime i actually venture onto my page i'm reminded of grandfather...alot of life has happened since grandfather passed away...but the missing him doesn't change...i just try to remember my father's words...'it will get better...you'll remember the good times and they will make you smile..."...and so i move on...and accept the journey of grief...with it's laughter and it's tears...christmas time is here...i love christmas time...though this year is rather bittersweet...it is the second year spending christmas without my family...my apartment is quiet...and though i have had many invitations to usurp on other's christmas's...it is not the same as being with my quirky family...despite the melancholiness that pushes in and around me...i find a strange peace in just letting christmas surround me...the city is busier than ever...people rushing everywhere...the snow is deep...christmas music is everywhere (much to jess' annoyance)...i have been given life's most beautiful gift of amazing family and friends, even if i can't be with them...my Father is good...beyond belief...my dear old roomie, Mel, was visiting last week...we were walking down the street when she said...'you're happier than you used to be'...and she's right...i realized it the other day, as well...it was a process...but after grandfather passed away i realized that life really is too precious...too beautiful...to let it be controlled by all the busyness that surrounds us...i have been letting myself dream again...giving myself permission to just be me again...to not be controlled by unreasonable expectations...to dance and laugh...and truly just love life...to accept my Father's gifts as gifts...and His lessons as lessons...and so i guess, my friends...that this christmas i want to wish you love...my love...and most of all the Father's love...drink deeply of life...and dance...merry christmas...
Monday, 29 October 2007
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Clear
goin' home
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...a tribute to my grandfather, clarence james boynton...
...who passed away after a courageous battle with lymphoma...i struggle to find the right words to express all that my grandfather was...a man of great strength...my father's hero...many man's hero...a world war II veteran, sergeant, tank commander...he had a peice of shrapnel in his head that he used as a convenient excuse for his quirkiness...seems we've all inherited that quirkiness...he was a man who refused to let age slow him down...refusing to give up farming...even at age 88...he taught me that life is meant to be discovered...and to be lived to it's fullest...he taught me that everyone can make a difference...and that when you are given that chance...make a difference...he was one of the few people whom i allowed to call me 'susie'...he was a man who could always make me laugh...i will miss him...it is hard to imagine what life will be like with the gaping hole that grandfather has left...there are millions of things i could have said...but for now...this is enough...he was a great man...respected and loved by many...but what matters to me, is that he was my grandfather...
a description of the above photos.../grandfather and grandmum posing with some of the 'grand kids' during their 65th wedding anniversary celebrations/ taya teaching grandfather the finer points of the computer program 'line rider'/ sue reminding grandfather how to use his cell phone...those tech lessons with grandpa were great fun...he was always ready to learn/ our family posing with grandfather and grandmum at matt&taya's wedding...and rich, i made sure you were in there...welcome to the fam/ grandfather and grandmum waiting for the wedding to begin/ grandfather and grandmum with all the 'grand kids'/...notice if you will grandpa's cheesy smile in most of the pics...we could never get him to be serious in photos...i blame my inability to be serious for photos on him...
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