Tag: life
group name: englishalphabet
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September 23, 2007 09:12 PM EDT --
Following is a short photo-essay on my little part of God's green acre, especially the Eagle's Nest Park near my home in Bancroft. My family who all still live in major urban centres have . . .
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June 19, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
The little fixer-upper we bought when we moved to our quaint rural retreat sixteen years ago came with one distinct concern of which we were well aware: water.
Our house gets its water from a 400 foot . . .
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . .
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . .
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July 11, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
The good old hockey game, as Stompin' Tom Connors observed, is the best game you can name. Canadians always have difficulty defining their national identity and finding commonalities that unite them. . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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October 09, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
(If you are a person who believes that every word in the Bible is literal truth and your mind is not open to other points of view or interpretations, then it is perhaps best if you do not read any further . . .
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . .
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . .
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April 03, 2008 03:46 PM EDT --
But maybe it does.
I support the absolute freedom of thought and speech. This means that I support your freedom to have whatever ridiculous opinion you want.
But I also support, . . .
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June 09, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
It wasn't my fault, I should have been there. I was that kind of girl. What happened? My father, bless his heart, had been laid off in 1965 . . .
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
There is a tendency to compare the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam, especially as opposition to the war continues to rise as it did during the waning years of the Vietnam war.
The question must be . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:33 PM EDT --
One of the definitions of apathetic as given by dictionary.com is
not interested or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive
I find that I am apathetic about certain things in life. . . .
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July 14, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning with little memory of what had come before. Let's say you still knew who you were, how to go about most of your daily tasks, but could recall almost nothing . . .
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April 26, 2007 08:21 PM EDT --
This poem is dedicated to that perennial cockroach that seems to infest the gather landscape in ever increasing numbers. If this is about you, you know it. You wish you could write, but you can't, . . .
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . .
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May 17, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Words. They are very powerful things.
Of all the many inventions of human kind, words, sound that convey an endless range of meanings, must be amongst the most important. They can . . .
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September 16, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
We've all heard of WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), or YUPpies (Young Urban Professionals) or of DINKs (Dual-Income, No Kids).
Well, I have a new social acronym, one I've created . . .
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