Shakti Sunday (revised)
By Chris Corcoran “I hear you’re musicians.” I peered around Peter to join the conversation. It was a Saturday night in March and we were listening to a drum circle … Continue reading Shakti Sunday (revised)
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By Billy Collins
When We Say Goodbye
by Michelle April
“Mémé keeps repeating I love you and then there is silence. The purity of that love, is unparalleled. There is no baggage with this love. I say goodbye and hang up.”
Can We Save a Wakefield Forest?
Some of us in Wakefield are trying to save a local forest, a forest that’s a ten-minute walk from Wakefield’s Earle House intersection.
Tea with the Queen
The royal family have managed, as they often do, to claim international headlines in recent times, but as I try to absorb the exhausting latest covid updates and marvel at … Continue reading Tea with the Queen
Sweet Swimming
This week’s blog is written on the heels of Gillie’s post last week describing in gorgeous photos and prose her admiration of water, it’s sustaining and magical properties. We are … Continue reading Sweet Swimming
The Uses of Water
Come with me, on my favourite walk at this time of year, down Mill Road alongside the La Pêche river
Beware the Ides of March
by Paula Halpin
Out of nowhere came Covid-19, a microscopic party-pooper that heartlessly blew up the Great Canadian Birthday Plan.
Hypnotizing Helen
By John Urban
I asked her to keep her eyes focused on the flame as I started passing the lit candle slowly in front of her from side to side…
The Sawmill Trail
I eagerly gathered my freshly charged battery operated chainsaw, a pair of sharp cutters, my work gloves and crucially, a pair of safety glasses. I was ready for action!
A Little Bit Sheepish
Unless you have spent time with sheep, you are likely to see them as virtually identical. Not at all. I’d have you know that sheep are all individuals with their own characters and peculiarities.
For You
By John Urban
The only poem I ever wrote that worked-it brought the lady back!
Wandering Wakefield 