Seems Born to Drive
My Ingersol Rand representative seems to be born to drive “I’ll gain success by making friends with numbers,” exclaimed in […]
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Old Man Punk
Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Banjo Sea Shanties and Beat Train Rambles – Postcard #51
Starting at the Steamboat Island Woodshed, Dave rambles salty original freeverse with Wm. Lenker on banjo and traces personal poetic
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Poetic Ghosts of New Years Past – Postcard #50
An aural montage of past new years’ evenings featuring Dave O reading from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” next
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
Meandering Past Monuments of Remembrance – Postcards #49
Wrapping up the White Poppies for Remembrance series with a narrative late-night wander through Westminster, London, DaveO meanders past military
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Peace to Soldiers and Strangers – Postcard #48
Back home on the North Vancouver porch, Dave reads from Clay Mcleod’s essay Why I Don’t Wear a Poppy while
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Cascadian Byways
Comfortably Lonely, Cabin Porch
Comfortably lonely, cabin porch hard back book foggy overslept hard back chair backpack hangs on a wooden peg empty but
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Are no Stranger
Between night and light
the space between night and light when bats dive like fiery planes battles over borders foggy lines on faded maps
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Cascadian Byways
One Way These Tracks
One way these tracks run directly into the elevator then somehow into Mt. Hood turning east stopped by a wooden
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Vancouver Grey
Waiting Only Twice a Day
Trying to say kind words, “surely room for all” waiting on the 15 Cambie amidst dig and cover moving one
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Waiting (and Resisting) in Baghdad – Postcard #47
A story about Iraqi resistance fighters and their personal motivations by a young writer called Waiting in Baghdad is the
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
(Meta)Physical Conditions of the Environment – Postcard #46
Taking a Remembrance Day respite to enjoy a conscious discussion with ‘Trigger’ at Vancouver’s New Amsterdam Cafe, Dave O listens
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Awakening to the Dawn of Potential – Postcard #45
Part 6 of the “White Poppies for Remembrance” series considers the opportunity cost of the lost human potential while at
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Righteous Declarations for Humans – Postcard #44
Part 5 of the White Poppies for Remembrance series continues with Dave at Victory Park, this time reading the United
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Pondering Flanders at the Cenotaph – Postcard #43
Finding Victory Square in post-ceremony calm, Dave settles onto a bench for lost sailors with some bagpipers to chat about John
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
Buddhas in the Trenches – Postcard #42
Part 3 of the White Poppies for Remembrance series (recorded Nov. 2006) features reading from the Dhammapada by Siddhartha Gautama
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
White Poppies on a Rainyday Coat – Postcard #41
Part 2 of the White Poppies for Remembrance series finds Dave O eating oatmeal in North Van before heading downtown
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