Saturday, January 30, 2010

POEMS: AN EARLY HARVEST, 2OO9-2010

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AN EARLY HARVEST: NEW POEMS POEMS FOR MY MOTHER IN FOUR LANGUAGES 1. EL NIDO DESOLADO (Para mi Madre) Los pajaritos estan dejando su nido; e...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

ALIVE IN HAITI: POEM 2

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(Click on image to zoom in on Text) PORT-AU- PRINCE --- French rescuers pulled a teenage girl...very dehydrated, with a broken left leg and...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

A DEATH IN HAITI

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(Click on image to zoom in on text.) FABIANNE GEISMAR, 15 Shot dead for stealing mirrors. --- Headline, The Toronto Star, Catastrophe in Ha...
Friday, January 1, 2010

RESTATING OUR RAISON D'ETRE

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Shed light, bridge the gap, and appreciate the clear picture. Missing the splendour of things because of murky expression is inexcusable...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

CA. 2010 --- ARE YOU HAPPY?

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The moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on; Neither love, nor piety, nor wit, can cancel half a line. --- Omar Khayyam , Rubaiyat H...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

DESIDERATUM FOR A NEW YEAR: ARE YOU HAPPY?

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Are you happy? The double-edged question can only lead to a constant resolve: I resolve to be happy, this year, and the many years hereafter...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

DID SHE WAKE UP FOR NOCHE BUENA?

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OMNI SOLI SEMPER* She looks for Dad most of the nights now. The flannel blanket was an armour: it shielded me through nights I needed you to...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

RECUERDOS DE PASCUAS PASADAS: A TALE OF TWO CHRISTMASES

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Three decades of Canadian Christmas --- that should be enough of White Christmas, shouldn't it? But we did not have one this time. Green...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

THERE IS STILL NO ROOM AT THE INN: CHRISTMAS IS FOR GOD'S CHILDREN

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CHRISTMAS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: PART 2 The Toronto Star’s star columnist --- sports, warzones, courts, trends, life, living, death, the lot o...

CHRISTMAS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: CAN CHRISTMAS ALSO BE FOR THE POOR?

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Amidst the frenzied flurry of Gift-buying, we offer the following to form part of the sobering "conscience" for the season. Carol ...