Audio

“You Gotta Be The Change That You Wanna See” MC Yogi


‘Dying for a Home’ by Cathy Crowe: Book Launch


Sister Sledge: We Are Family
Grassroots women from across Canada at (the alloursisters conference) pre-conference at (hostess) My Sister's Place, a holistic drop-in for women in London, Ontario. My Sisters Place provided (lived experience) women with hot meals and a place to share and connect during the conference (May 9-11, 2011). A good and warm reception was extended and ...

Individual Peace Generates World Peace
Individual Peace Generates World Peace "Chakra Vibrations arises from the inspiration of sharing internal peace with our global brothers and sisters. It is the wisdom call from our ancestors which invites us to meditate and remember that we are one. It is the hope of remembering everyday that we are all brothers ...

Get out to vote students! RICK MERCER


“THE ADDICT”(pt 1-3) by Caroline Myss, Language of the Archetypes
"Most people associate addiction with a substance..." C Myss

• “You Gotta Be The Change That You Wanna See” MC Yogi
• ‘Dying for a Home’ by Cathy Crowe: Book Launch
• Sister Sledge: We Are Family
• Individual Peace Generates World Peace
• Get out to vote students! RICK MERCER
• “THE ADDICT”(pt 1-3) by Caroline Myss, Language of the Archetypes

Visual Art

“You Gotta Be The Change That You Wanna See” MC Yogi

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“The sharpest stigma I ever felt was at the hands of loved ones.”

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“starvingincanada”

Welcome new contributor (writer, artist, cartoonist)

Jacqualyn   aka “starvingincanada”
Hello, my name is Jacqualyn I am a person with a disability trying to survive & advocate change in Canada, for people with disabilities. through the written word emails, blogging, facebook twitter etc. just trying to make people & the political candidates aware of [...]

spring hope eternal 1

“We are refered to as ‘lived experience’ in some circles; in others we celebrate the moon”

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Words can travel across thousands of miles.
May my words create mutual understanding and love.
May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

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Written Word

The Stigmata of Oedipus (or- The Politics of Bedbugs)

The Stigmata of Oedipus
by David Meagher
photos by c. smith
How do we speak of the proper management of “bedbugs”, the notorious pest which has captured so much media attention, especially since plaguing some more up-scale hotels in New York City, this pest which appears to have become a key concern of the Toronto Board of Health, [...]

What Can I do? How can I Help?

This poem was written by my daughter Meighan MCGraw at the age of 14, She wrote for a poverty event here in Saskatoon. She is now 16 and still writes.

Iroquois Story of Creation

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Iroquois Story of Creation

Woman Who Fell From The Sky
In the beginning, in the Sky World, a pregnant wife asked her husband to fetch the delicacies she craved. But she wanted the bark of a root of the Great Tree in [...]

The Stop At The Barns

The Stop At The Barns
Mon Mar 16, 2009
By Cheryl Smith
Photo by John Bonnar

Saturday morning market at The Barns is bustling. Under the protection of the Covered Street, there is action here no matter the weather. It is always a warm welcome. It is community at its best.
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“The sharpest stigma I ever felt was at the hands of loved ones.”

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The Box

The Box
I live outside the box-yet the box lives closed locked up in me.
I have approached the box, I have melded into it, I have never stood outside ‘to see what I could see‘. Let’s see.
It is oblique turquoise and silver shelled, twinkling on a soft pink cloud of hue; it holds the answer to [...]

• The Stigmata of Oedipus (or- The Politics of Bedbugs)
• What Can I do? How can I Help?
• Iroquois Story of Creation
• The Stop At The Barns
• The Box