Seeding beauty in Crown Point
It was re-assuring to know that I was part of a community that cared.
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deLight Festival: Last Days of Ice and Snow
Red Tree Collective, in collaboration with Hamilton Dialogues and Pipeline Trail Hamilton presents the 4th annual DeLight Festival February 1st to 29th, 2020 A multi disciplinary festival with installations of visual art, poetry, sound and community art along the Pipeline Trail between London Street North and Strathearne Avenue. Hamilton’s Pipeline Trail is an urban walking path with …
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Speaking Out: Best Essay Collections of 2019
I focused on one of the most popular book trends of the decade, the personal essay. Women have been at the forefront of this trend with politically charged, personal, and, you sir will no longer silence me essays.
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Review: When Poverty Mattered: Then and now
Like many Canadian cities, Hamilton is beset with crises of poverty. From the steady erosion of affordable housing, to an increasingly visible homeless population, to addiction, mental health, and the stigmatization of entire neighbourhoods, Hamilton struggles with both the direct and indirect costs of poverty. Society relies upon volunteer organizations and underfunded social services to …
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The Starless Sea: Land of Books and Honey
The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern “Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.” This sentence in The Starless Sea is writer Erin Morgenstern taunting the reader. “Read my book. Find your story. Come on. I dare you”, Morgenstern challenges. …
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An odd couple in Nice – A book review of Akin by Emma Donoghue
Noah is about to spend his 80th birthday in Nice, France revisiting his birthplace that he hasn’t seen since he was four. His wife died almost a decade before, although she still pops in to be the sassy voice of reason in his head. He plans on investigating the mystery surrounding his mother when she …
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Big Johnny Blue and friends jam for peace
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1567994858851{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”]Feature photo by Ivan Sorensen.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [sam_pro id=1_11 codes=”true”][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]On Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of September, Big Johnny Blue, my band, is putting together a music festival to celebrate PEACE. Peace is a word which has been taken for granted and that can seem so hollow. I …
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Stinson event to be highlighted in TVO doc
A lighted path along the escarpment and cellists under an overpass will appear in a TVO documentary series, The Life-Sized City, as reported by the Hamilton Spectator. Fireflies in the forest was originally planned as an urban intervention as part of 100In1day but was postponed due to weather. The organizers, Stinson Community Association and Surprise …
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf, an informal review
With the long awaited fifth instalment of the Animal Crossing series coming soon, the time has come to completely ignore it and talk about Animal Crossing: New Leaf, instead. New Leaf is the fourth and most recent of the Animal Crossing games, not including Happy Home Designer and Amiibo Festival because I actively choose to …
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She is aware
She sees She hears She knows That the world can be winter cold She hears She knows She sees That the world is in desperate need She knows She sees She hears That the world is in fear She seeks She tells She dreams Of a world filled with peace She wonders She searches She …
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