Category: Mick’s Picks
Life’s Journey is a River
Life’s Journey is a River I am a gentle river,I am still, I am calm,I trickle and I shine,I sparkle and I smile.I feed the floral fields,I bless the golden harvests. I am the music in the stream.I am its echoSending everlasting harmoniesTo the windswept breezesThat caress the scented pinesAlong the endless shore. I am…
The Double Helix of History & Its Connections to Canada
Canadian History is a Double Helix where our DNA connects the Personal & the Official with P8s that can be illustrated by defining the following connections: Migration– Food, Shelter & Clothing Mobility– Transportation & Infrastructure Community– Leadership, Governance & Commerce. The Time Machine of Creativity Time is not stationary and its movement is constantly challenging…
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My Sources of Inspiration & Their Influences
My mother’s recitations & John McCormack’ ballads Irish storytellers, James Stephens, O’Casey & O’Faolain, James Hilton’s Mr.Chips, J.B.Priestley, Nathanael West’s novels, Durrell’s Quartet, Joyce’s Dubliners, LeCarre & Deighton, the Flashman series, Camus, Dostoevsky, Bertrand Russell, Orwell’s essays, William Morris’ News from Nowhere, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Bakunin, Ba Jin’s Autumn in Spring, Conrad’ Darkness, T.E. Lawrence’ crippling…
The New Superhero for Ordinary Folk is Idle No More
Meet Homeless Joe Liberty & his Rat Runners, combating crime in high places and using pigeons & abandoned cell phones to send his latest information to friendly hackers. He has a tin cup, a bag of birdseed, an artificial leg, eye patch, baseball hat, plastic shopping bag and a spiritual amulet necklace given to him…
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