Letters From Paradise
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Books about Women
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3 min read
By Alex Tk One Saturday while I was browsing through the stalks at the Indigo bookstore, I found myself in the Community and Culture section. What struck me immediately was that there numerous books facing me with the word women in the title. And they were all by feminists. Although I am not a fan…
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Einstein on Technology
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2 min read
Sign of the Times Einstein said “The human spirit must prevail over technology” A guy like Einstein, with his stature, does not throw around an imperative like must loosely. I guess at some point Einstein realized that technology, when unchecked, will either enslave us or destroy us. Today, as I look around I see a…
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The Sami People
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1 min read
SIGNS By Alex Tk I have a problem with people who dig up and destroy one part of the planet to green another part of the planet. This is what is about to happen to Northern Sweden … the home of the indigenous Sami people who have lived there for generations hunting, fishing and herding…
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Taking Refuge in Nature
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1 min read
Nature is beautiful … nature is bountiful Nature is silent … nature is loud and unpredictable Nature is destructive often bringing with it death and suffering Nature shows no remorse nor does it apologize Nature is patient and endures all things Nature does not complain Nature does not blame nor tell anyone what to do…
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Solar Eclipse
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2 min read
Letter From Montreal by Alex Traczyk On April 8, millions of people across North America witnessed a total eclipse and I was one of them. Over the years I have seen hundreds of pictures of the eclipse. So when I learnt that Montreal was on the path of totality and I would be able to…
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They Shoot Horses Don’t They
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2 min read
A sport executive’s vision of the future of sport A Micro-Story by Alex Traczyk Half way through a championship game an injured player is lying on his back on the pitch grimacing … in agony … holding his abdomen as if he had been shot. Players from both teams are standing about, watching anxiously looking…
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The Man of Her Dreams
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1 min read
It was Friday, so after work she and her co-worker headed to the nearby bar for Happy Hour. This meant that because they were women the first two beers were free. For the guys it was buy one get one free. Amidst the clamor of people talking, the shuffling of feet, the clinking of glasses…
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Death from a Distance
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1 min read
The man was sitting at his desk in his office on the eleventh floor of an office building overlooking the harbor. As he looked out the window, he saw the police and ambulance attendants dragging the body of a woman with long blonde hair out of the river. After watching them put her body on…
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Consolations
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2 min read
Anthony Ihnat On Saturday September 12, 2023 … 58 year old Canadian aid worker, Anthony Ihnat was killed in Ukraine when the vehicle he was driving took a direct hit from a Russian anti-tank missile. He and the other aid workers traveling with him, were on their way to check on civilians in the town…
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A Poet’s Dilemma
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1 min read
T.S. Elliot once confessed to a literary critic who happened to be his friend … that he did not understand many of the poems he had written. His friend said … ‘you don’t worry about that …. Just continue to write and we (critics) will figure out what it means’.