By Jesse Matas Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) is one of my favourite poets. While studying themes of conflict transformation in the MPACS program at the University of Waterloo, I have been thinking a lot about poetry and its transformative abilities. I have been thinking about how, for me, events, places, and stories take on new meaningContinue reading “Gwendolyn Brooks”
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Missing discourses of COVID-19 and a wake up call for resilience
Societies in the form of enclosed carbonated water Within this aluminum or plastic structure, you will find water. All humans need water to survive. When opening a soda bottle or can, as the pressure is released, the liquid can not retain as much carbon dioxide and the excess bubbles are released. The carbon dioxide (bubbles)Continue reading “Missing discourses of COVID-19 and a wake up call for resilience”
Myth, Hope and Affliction: A Meditation on Meaning
“We must dwell in our entirety. Anything less becomes self-dismemberment. We must claim all of our history, all our feelings and thoughts, the painful and the celestial, all together. And then we step up to the threshold…” – Ivan Granger, The Longing in Between, 2014. [1] For as long as the archives of recorded memoryContinue reading “Myth, Hope and Affliction: A Meditation on Meaning”
Peace is Everybody's Business 