flexible dieting

11 September, 2024

Quebec City, Quebec

Retaining information in our brains can be challenging. Several practices such as visual representation (painting an image), converting the information into some sort of a melodic tune, or

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Warrendale (1967)

Warrendale was an institution in Toronto that specialized in emotionally-distraught students. The staff-members and therapists would often use obscure, experimental methods to deal with the patients. Some accounts say, it was evident that the provoking of these children were just so that administrators could receive incentive to restrain them. Here, lies an actuality drama with no script, narration, and a very real look into the establishment. Regardless of how painful some of the scenes may look. It would be interesting to see a follow-up documentary featuring the individuals in this.

Irene... I hear you loud & clear.

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Elena Ferrante's The Story Of a New Name (2012)

I never read the first instalment of this Neapolitan, but I wanted to give haste to my heritage and the feminist, historical fiction in some regard. How sexist Italian literature can be. In times of family battle, sexual violence, telling your friend that you regret your marriage because your newborn is ugly - Elena has the inability to see herself on her own. In fairness, we still see this trait day-to-day in the modern world while some of us share the madness. The first half is quite dull but I'm glad I hung in there, I think that's what makes Ferrante a rare bird. I don't remember your name, but thank you for the reco!!

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The Gaslight Anthem - Here's Looking At You Kid

I was lucky enough to hear Fallon's confessional lyrics live, and the distinction from studio to performance is so eccentric. A sombre, melancholy song to bid you farewell when your heart finally retires. And a boy's journal of being rejected by every girl ever, spilled out to the masses. The world needed this, for I think we all know a Gayle, Janey, and Anna - cue consolation sigh.

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Fog by Carl Sandburg

I've spent quite some time scaling the coast over the past couple of years. And many of those morning runs can be instilled in dense, coastal fog. Formed over the ocean as a result of temperature differences between water and air, the fog is then advected inland through wind or air currents, and sets the mood in the scene it surrounds. Like an atmospheric watering can, misting forest canopies, plants and soils in moisture and nutrients. Sandburg compares this element to the stillness of a feline. It's interesting to imagine the likes of the fog seeping off the coast of Illinois in the late 1800's. What that must have felt like.

nostalgia of a previous life

16 July, 2024

White Rock, British Columbia

Writer's block in the first-degree. Too many engagements, so little seasons.

I sat down to write this and I immediately was distracted by past trauma.

Back to some form of grand, scheduled programming.

Forever wedged into the plank, here's to 'the little town by the sea.'

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Mall (2014)

Linkin Park's Joe Hahn brings the reign of dope & gunfire to the mall. A complete intriguing original, and the usage of VFX is well beyond the grain. A portrait of the messed up world we live in, and how broken kids try and navigate through broken homes. Monaghan's character is intellectual and operates among juvenile criminal minds. P. Rod dry-humping a mannequin will forever pay first month's and last month's rent in my mind from here on out (Yeah Right!). It's a sic & twisted ride into the shopaholic's demise, and collecting observations from peeping Toms, desperate housewives and hero rent-a-cops passing through.

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Saving Us By Katharine Hayhoe (2021)

The ongoing cli-fi war amongst the disciples and non-believers. Regardless of which category you find yourself in, our health relies on our planet's health. If everyone lived the lifestyle of the average American, we would need five planet earths to sustain. A ton of interesting facts and statistics in this book, while Hayhoe dives into the importance of conducting discussion surrounding climate change with your peers. Connecting the dots within something they value in life, that has great impact from the crisis. Those common-life experiences may result in the most effective way to instill change in our society. Continue to add low-carbon habits to your self each year.

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Brothers Osborne - 21 Summer

Simple frills, nostalgic melody. You can feel the pride in this southern, gay country star in pure, musical divinity. There are memories within. To revert back to youthful, summer nights and reminisce of a bond you swore you'd never break. This track would surely bring a tear to a glass eye. Allow yourself to be grateful for all the experiences you've shared. Where you've been, and where you are headed. Roll down your windows and feel the breeze.

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The Next Five Minutes by Sophie Diener

An empowering description on moving forward, and the assuring factor that nothing you feel is truly permanent. We as a society are lead to the slaughters of stress. An ongoing battle to worry, and accept hopelessness in the probability that we all at one point or another lose faith.

This poem demonstrates that focussing on the small steps ahead rather than far off in the distance can calm your frame of mind, and allow you to see the blue skies more clearly. I believe your conscience will continue to guide you through wrong & right, but we all want to throw hands with it sometimes. We've felt this particular way before, but we've also been through it. Check the clocks, and embrace the small ticking, for now.

a hustle to be a jack russell

20 May, 2024

Port Renfrew, British Columbia

Sheer moments of pure, Bliss. I've encountered very few of these over the last couple of years, but my certainty is undeniable when they do occur. We feel these when we often don't expect them, necessarily. In the moment, a wave of emotion and euphoria flows through out bodies and if it's deemed cloud nine, we store it a very special place within us. Unforgettable.

On the subject, there also lies - Deja Vu.

Are these sources of a past life? A premonition? Studies have often claimed a glitch in the matrix and other unsettling phenomenons. It's unclear how or why this happens, but many associate it with spirituality or paranormal. I just can't seem to fathom how crystal clear some of my cases have been. I've heard that its important to feel comfort if you ever are to experience deja vu, for it may just be a sign that you are right where you are supposed to be in life.

There's a strong theory that this takes place more predominately in young adults and begins to decrease in instances as the brain is more fully developed with age.

I suppose this makes sense as to why this keeps happening in my thirties...

:)

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The forest remains quiet while the city is exploding with Stanley Cup fever. Once again, a scale around the island lives up to its promising zen. A life of working 'from home' while you catch sounds of orca breathes from your bedroom window. Secret saunas in the middle of nowhere and a flight through the aurora borealis. In times of stress, it's critical to locate your inner peace. I tend to bring my mind in + out of the darkness in an attempt to become an expert on navigating it. The woods host great grounds for those of us who outgrew the McDonalds playplace, and need a place to reflect. Though, the amount of tourism is aggravating and parking is about as expensive as scaling Whole Foods hallways.

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The Leather Boys (1964)

Newlyweds, Reggie & Dot are bombarded with hardships within the working-class marriage, while they focus on their opposing viewpoints. Rita Tushinghan, who I adore deeply, performs eloquently as always. The screaming matches alone draw such anxiety from the viewer. Her and her mum exchange toxic suggestions over tea, as Campbell's character befriends a local biker, with whom he spends the majority of time with. This kitchen-sink drama demonstrates the regular, everyday human relationships from an era that seems so regular. It's refreshing to look back at problems that make sense - Questioning one's sexuality in a fast-paced, sleazy environment. In addition, if anyone knows the name of the song Reggie puts on the jukebox, please get in touch with me - Shazam is useless. After all, 'when I talk to the kettle, I don't expect the pot to answer.'

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The Midnight Library By Matt Haig (2022)

The teachings in this toward the unpredictable nature of quantum physics. Nora Seed, genius, takes her life and ends up in the Midnight Library. Throughout the volume of bookshelves, endless possibilities of lives she could have lived in literature form. The more lives you try, the easier it was to imagine a better life from where you found yourself. However, the more lives you live, the harder it may be to feel at home anywhere. Right? Every life contains millions of decisions, and they influence the outcome immensely. They say, to never go back on a life that you've once tried, for there always needs to be some sort of variation. We place so much fixation on our lives to convince ourselves it was never the right one. A memory so vague and intangible, it will hardly be there at all. Does Nora see this through? Do you?

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The Wooden Sky - Something Hiding for Us in the Night

A true, master-piece of music. If only there were a life where I had caught them at one of their many in-store, acoustic performances at record shops that are no longer with us. With Neil Young and Matt Good inflections, embrace the slow buildup to folk vibratos from heaven. This was released at such a good period in life, and you can feel it throughout the song. Not to be sappy, but if the sky were actually made of wood, that'd be tree-mendous.

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The People Have The Power by Patti Smith

In these times of strife, New York punk poet recites her dream, frustrated with the concept of struggle. For we, the people, withhold so much power to create ongoing change, but choose to hate, inflict pain, and decide to turn on one another. This is contemporary talent at its finest. The musical rendition of this on most days would benefit so well in the modern world.

Thank God for sending us Patti. A true, empowering woman, whose contributed to modern literature like no other, providing a world and journey to those who care to listen.