The 12 Days…

Walking Words 2009

by Kate Orland Bere
01.01.2009

OVER THE COMING MONTHS, I will give myself the gift of an ongoing journey, one I know will inspire me and may, over time, inspire others. This gift is to walk or to traverse by other means the perimeter of the island of Montreal, and write about this odyssey in a blog. The idea being [...]

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Register, Please

by Joel Yanofsky
31.12.2008

I’M JEWISH, SO BEFORE I get around to the question of giving and receiving, you’ll excuse me for not fully understanding why people put themselves through this annual gift-giving meshugas in the first place. We have Chanukah, of course, but everyone knows Chanukah doesn’t count. It doesn’t even qualify as a real Jewish holiday since it isn’t sufficiently obsessed [...]

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Mind Travel

by Endre Farkas
30.12.2008

I AM NOT GREEDY. Unlike those who made these economic times what they are. I am aware and so would feel guilty asking for a lot of objets d’art. Therefore, I do not ask for much. I ask for only what is impossible. What is the point of asking for the possible? I want the [...]

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Looking Back on Gulch Creek Holdup

by Mark Paterson
29.12.2008

HIPSTER, FRET NOT. Gulch Creek Holdup is not a film you’re supposed to have seen. Gulch Creek Holdup is a four-minute home movie drama shot for fun in the mid-1950s. I saw it on Christmas Eve, 1981, during a gathering at my grandparents’ house when I was ten. My grandfather wasn’t in the mood; a [...]

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An Aperture to the Cosmos

by Maria Schamis Turner
28.12.2008

YOU ARE ON THE WESTERN EDGE of the Painted Desert in Northern Arizona, 93,500 acres of colour. The sun is about to set and the light is hitting Roden Crater bringing out hues of red and black. There are over 400 craters in this place, making up the San Francisco Volcanic Field, a natural phenomenon [...]

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Bring On The Midwife

by Marianne Ackerman
27.12.2008

IF WE’RE TALKING FANTASY ACQUISITION, all I can think of is pictures. Given unlimited resources and no practical obstacles, I would prefer an original work of art, to be looked at endlessly in many moods, made part of my environment and then left as a dilemma to my estate. What should we do with The [...]

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A Jolt of Christmas

by Leila Marshy
26.12.2008

THE OTHER DAY A MAN who had just been laid off was interviewed on CBC. “I guess I gotta go home and tell the wife and kids we’re not doing Christmas this year,” he said. Without a job, there was no money to buy gifts. No gifts, no Christmas.

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