Brain Bits To Go

  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 30

    Part of my job is peer mentoring and a big part of that is helping to resolve interpersonal issues amongst my co-workers. I often use some of the principles of mindfulness to provide tools to aid this process. One of the main ones, is to not live in past issues or project future ones, but…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 29

    I have a friend named Gene who has been working for years to make the world a better place. Slowly, steadily and most importantly, deliberately. He has worked for youth employment programs, outreach programs, community health networks, school breakfast programs, non-profit housing… the list goes on. All of it with the intent to make life…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 28

    Three days to go and the creative juices are drying up. Still, I’ve managed to bang out another one. Only two more to go! A Missing Muse The voice inside my head cries out, “Oh no! This cannot be!” “The words, the lines, those precious rhymes, Have all forsaken me.” Yet here I sit and…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 26

    Okay, okay…. I know it’s “another” Spring poem. The season inspires me like no other. It truly is my favourite. So yes… I do tend to write about it a bit too often. Then again, these are my poems, so I guess that’s okay. Enjoy! Spring 3.0 Now spring is here, the crocus blooms, Promise…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 27

    Today is the 27th of May here in Ottawa and it is snowing steadily and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. This is more than a little unusual. A few flakes, a mini flurry sure. Not uncommon you say. But this isn’t that. This is uncommon for this time of year. It gave rise…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 25

    I’ve written poems about my wife, and about my dogs, but I don’t think I’ve ever written one about my daughter. This one is for her. A Father’s Wish I wish you joy to temper pain, Some sun your clouds to chase. I wish you love to lift you up, To gently touch your face.…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 24

    I absolutely love being near the ocean. I live in Canada and have travelled coast to coast. I’ve visited both the Pacific and Atlantic and I miss them dearly. This poem is partly about that partly about being uprooted from everything you know to follow a job far from your home. Enjoy. Far From Home…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 23

    Something a little different today. The Lonely One Oh won’t you please come in and sit, Not many folks stop by. The place gives them a weird feeling, So most won’t even try. But you’re not most, you’re braver far, At least got through the door. If you could just come closer now, I’ll show…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 22

    I love to sing. I think, and most people would agree, I’m not very good at it. In fact, very not good might be more accurate. I am very fortunate indeed then that the one person who most often hears it actually enjoys it! Against all probability, Lynn likes when I sing. What are the…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 21

    If you have been reading my entries so far this year, you will know that I love nature. So when I look at what we do to it and our wholesale destruction of it, I get pretty depressed. But it’s not hopeless. There are much smarter people than I who are working at ways to…

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