If my relationship with LiveJournal behaved anything like human relationships, LJ would have left me high and dry long ago on account of my frequent and unpredictable absences ( Read more... )

In the early morning hours after St. Patrick's day, Tiffany calls me from Toronto. She'd just finished her first day at the Ishskwaday conference - a conference that brought together our Native American brothers and sisters with other Canadians in a sharing of culture,
spirit...and faith.

"I know you'd love it, I think you should be here," she ( Read more... )

An old acquaintance of mine, someone with whom I was friendly, shared some laughs and a few hugs, died on Monday in a motorcycle accident. I can't quite swallow that sad feeling, and yet, I take considerable comfort in the very strong belief that 'shaking off this mortal coil' is just a precursor to an experience that we cannot understand here on ( Read more... )

Cycling back through my various scattered entries, I realize how many times I have begun with that very contrived excuse explaining my lack of updates. That is because instead of leaving entries in a timely fashion as per NORMAL PEOPLE, I, true to form, take the RETARDED route and leave small novellas once every few months, stretched to the max ( Read more... )

**Author's Note: What follows is something I wrote in the immediacy of a certain moment. I was in love with a beautiful girl - as wonderful and scary as that can be - and trying to fix something that seemed to be broken. Something was wrong, and I was scared that I would have to learn exactly how one falls out of love before one is ready. As ( Read more... )

I return by inexplicable compulsion to my Livejournal, after a long, LONG hiatus (one that probably has you all wondering if indeed I am still alive, or perhaps have died in a tragic breakdancing accident).

Though I say with considerable enthusiasm that I have found new excitement and expression in the art of (ed. SUBSTANDARD)breakdancing, I feel ( Read more... )

Today I emerge into a new realm of privilege and responsibility. I am now perceived under the law, by society, my peers, my family, and the government as a fully independent and autonomous individual that is completely accountable for his own actions and prepared to accept both the fruits or the consequences of his decisions ( Read more... )

My last night in Calgary - I know that now, at 3:30am it's my last morning, but until the darkness bleeds daylight, it's still night for me ( Read more... )

Departure:Pearson Airport - 7:00AM, August 11th [Toronto time]
Arrival:Calgary Airport - 9:00AM August 11th [Calgary time]

Needless to say, I am in Calgary, indulging in the youthful freedoms that the past three months did NOT permit (thanks to summer courses). Now that my more pressing commitments are over and done with, I took the liberty of ( Read more... )

UNMITIGATED, SPONTANEOUS, IRREPRESSIBLE, IRREVOCABLE, IRREFUTABLE, EMPOWERING (makes me feel on top of the world), DISEMPOWERING (just as it makes me feel helpless sometimes), INTOXICATING, MADDENING, TRANSIENT, INSPIRING,

...what are all these misplaced adjectives describing.

INFATUATION, that's what.Turn my veritable world upside down why don't ( Read more... )