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Whisky & Fire (a new song)
I write music to help soothe my spirit as I travel through this crazy life. I think it’s important for all of us to have some form of creative expression (in whatever sense ‘creative’ works for you). For me, it’s music and art and writing. I think if you take yourself too ...
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I write music to help soothe my spirit as I travel through this crazy life. I think it’s important for all of us to have some form of creative expression (in whatever sense ‘creative’ works for you). For me, it’s music and art and writing. I think if you take yourself too ...
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love, healing, trauma
Trigger warning: this post deals with some fairly intense themes — including physical and sexual assault. It also includes swear words, and I reserve my right to employ strong language in telling my story of sexual violence. I have struggled over whether to post this story publicly, but I ...
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Trigger warning: this post deals with some fairly intense themes — including physical and sexual assault. It also includes swear words, and I reserve my right to employ strong language in telling my story of sexual violence. I have struggled over whether to post this story publicly, but I ...
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The Decolonisation Chronicles: episode X
There are a few things that get me down, but perhaps colonialism is near the top of the list. That’s sounds grandiose, right? But it’s true. I didn’t realize how vehemently I hated colonialism until I moved to Britain. Living in the UK — the place where the oppression and ...
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There are a few things that get me down, but perhaps colonialism is near the top of the list. That’s sounds grandiose, right? But it’s true. I didn’t realize how vehemently I hated colonialism until I moved to Britain. Living in the UK — the place where the oppression and ...
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I wrote this a few months ago. It’s funny how emotions well and subside and circulate and whisper to you some days, shout at you on other days. But they’re always there, even when we try to ignore them. Underneath it all is a sense of forgiveness. We don’t always get what we wan...
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Edmonton vignettes: the tale of the model airplane
When I was wee, we lived in Riverdale, in a co-op house with cedars that my mom had lovingly planted in front of the fence. Today a handful of those shrubs have survived in front of our old house: scraggly thirty-year-old cedars that mark every year I make it successfully around the sun. Whenever...
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When I was wee, we lived in Riverdale, in a co-op house with cedars that my mom had lovingly planted in front of the fence. Today a handful of those shrubs have survived in front of our old house: scraggly thirty-year-old cedars that mark every year I make it successfully around the sun. Whenever...
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webs and hierarchies of suffering and trauma: a manifesto of healing
Trauma rips through many lives today, and has ripped through many lives in the past. It may rear its head as domestic violence, as post-traumatic stress from someone who has seen combat. It may be inter-generational trauma from oppression, dispossession, abuse. You may be the ‘survivor of a...
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Trauma rips through many lives today, and has ripped through many lives in the past. It may rear its head as domestic violence, as post-traumatic stress from someone who has seen combat. It may be inter-generational trauma from oppression, dispossession, abuse. You may be the ‘survivor of a...
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So you want to be a leader?
By now many Albertans are well aware of the financial and logistical nightmare that the University of Alberta finds itself in. Paula Simons has articulated some poignant thoughts on the whole mess in her column. It would seem that there is ample blame to be spread between both the PC government a...
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By now many Albertans are well aware of the financial and logistical nightmare that the University of Alberta finds itself in. Paula Simons has articulated some poignant thoughts on the whole mess in her column. It would seem that there is ample blame to be spread between both the PC government a...
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Puddle Pirates
I grew up in the space where the grassland meets the mighty boreal forest – that ribbon of undulating green that stretches around the northern hemisphere. We, maybe out of envy for our cowboy cousins to the south with their stampedes and Olympics, cling to the prairie ideal with hopeful vanity. B...
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I grew up in the space where the grassland meets the mighty boreal forest – that ribbon of undulating green that stretches around the northern hemisphere. We, maybe out of envy for our cowboy cousins to the south with their stampedes and Olympics, cling to the prairie ideal with hopeful vanity. B...
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British appropriation
Back in July I spied this in the local H&M store: I was offended, but not surprised. Earlier in the month I had this exchange with a hipster Twitter persona (a mock character created by a trendy writer in Brighton): Regardless of whether this is a joke account or not, it speaks to a general &...
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Back in July I spied this in the local H&M store: I was offended, but not surprised. Earlier in the month I had this exchange with a hipster Twitter persona (a mock character created by a trendy writer in Brighton): Regardless of whether this is a joke account or not, it speaks to a general &...
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Body Talk
I occasionally write about body image on this blog: an intensely personal topic, but one I think merits more discussion in our society. If you’ve read my past posts, you’ll know that I’ve struggled with an eating disorder for the last 13 years. Until a year ago, I struggled to p...
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I occasionally write about body image on this blog: an intensely personal topic, but one I think merits more discussion in our society. If you’ve read my past posts, you’ll know that I’ve struggled with an eating disorder for the last 13 years. Until a year ago, I struggled to p...
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Cities are our Camps — a Metis perspective on urbanity and resurgence
I’ve been thinking a lot about urban/rural splits. My Master’s is in Rural Sociology, so I spent a lot of time thinking about the relationships between urban and rural spaces (and I worked in the Western Arctic, so I also thought about forced settlement and rural versus ‘remote&...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about urban/rural splits. My Master’s is in Rural Sociology, so I spent a lot of time thinking about the relationships between urban and rural spaces (and I worked in the Western Arctic, so I also thought about forced settlement and rural versus ‘remote&...
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World-Class Disease
It starts with a fever. Maybe a bit of a cold-sweat. Someone who knows someone who visited Paris remembers seeing a tower that was unequaled by all other towers. Someone else remembers reading in the Economist that in Dubai construction is the answer to all the countries dreams. Another voice chi...
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It starts with a fever. Maybe a bit of a cold-sweat. Someone who knows someone who visited Paris remembers seeing a tower that was unequaled by all other towers. Someone else remembers reading in the Economist that in Dubai construction is the answer to all the countries dreams. Another voice chi...
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I can have diversity?
I live far away. In a (sometimes) sunny Scottish city. I’ve become more aware of the differences in how the movement of people around the world shapes each city, county, country in amazing ways. Here in Scotland I long for pho and injera — two things that are not available in this sma...
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I live far away. In a (sometimes) sunny Scottish city. I’ve become more aware of the differences in how the movement of people around the world shapes each city, county, country in amazing ways. Here in Scotland I long for pho and injera — two things that are not available in this sma...
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something something erasure
This is just a quick post — I’ve already chatted about this video (link below) with someone on Twitter. http://prairieseen.tumblr.com/post/56440156936/talkin-bout-art-in-edmonton-part-1-big-fish The blog post itself bills the video as diverse, representing “people with diverse backgrounds in our ...
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This is just a quick post — I’ve already chatted about this video (link below) with someone on Twitter. http://prairieseen.tumblr.com/post/56440156936/talkin-bout-art-in-edmonton-part-1-big-fish The blog post itself bills the video as diverse, representing “people with diverse backgrounds in our ...
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Buffalo Bill and Other Reenactments — by Daniel Morley Johnson
by Daniel Morley Johnson This week in its “This Day in Journal History” column, the Edmonton Journal described a July 23, 1914 event that was attended by “15,000 of the city’s 72,000 residents.” Thousands had paid 25 cents to see a circus. Perhaps they sought light entertainment that was no doubt...
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by Daniel Morley Johnson This week in its “This Day in Journal History” column, the Edmonton Journal described a July 23, 1914 event that was attended by “15,000 of the city’s 72,000 residents.” Thousands had paid 25 cents to see a circus. Perhaps they sought light entertainment that was no doubt...
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