Tag: Health
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Winter
I am standing outside after a winter illness. I look around and see my neighbour sitting on his stoop smoking a cigarette. A single man near 60. He was the victim of a hit and run about a month ago. He was following all the rules, doing everything right, but it simply did not matter.…
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Jones Fire
I try to imagine what Jones will remember of me. Sometimes, I wish I could construct his memories. The three of us are out in the woods. A perfect autumn day. Jones is beaming, amazed by everything, and Rachelle is the light that made him, brought all this into being, and I know that sounds…
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Van Morrison
Share what the song Sweet Thing by Van Morrison has meant to your life: Lucas Stanford 52: “I was sick with cancer. It was advanced and I wasn’t expected to survive. I was still a young man, not yet in my 30’s, my entire life still in front of me. I felt I had wasted…
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Western Hospital Elevator
Early in the morning and the sounds of a distant hammer striking wood comes in through the window.
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Western Hospital
On the eighth floor of the cardiac wing at the Toronto Western Hospital a man sits on a bench near the elevators.
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