What binds us…

It is up to each one of us to decide on our social action.

Animal’s People. By Indra Sinha, Simon and Schuster, London, 2007. On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, leaked methylisocyanate gas into the atmosphere causing the death of over 15,000 people and maiming hundreds of thousands […]

A Conversation Ring … Ring …. Ring …. They called last evening. “We do not want you to do what you are doing.” “It is not just me, there are others” “We know that. You must stop them”. “But they […]

What are we doing there?

"...uses the universality of the body to explore the tensions created by the collision of East and West."

There were twelve of us in three cars driving from Montreal to Baie St-Paul and I was the only English-speaking person among eleven French-Canadians. We had decided to go whale watching and Baie St-Paul, situated in Charlevoix on the Fleuve […]

"The immigrant story is, however, not always a happy one...."

Unhung paintings stood stacked against a metal shelf. Inside four walls on Rue Mariette. The easel. Tubes of acrylic and oils. Boar bristle brushes. Black electric guitar in its case. Petunias in window boxes. Narrow pine shutters. A brick and […]

Where I can cry me a river….

"The people of Nepal never stop surprising the world..."

flux fleuve st-laurent i am the river. my ripples shift shaping glyphs. can you read me? the iroquois did – by the glint the sun shot over my liquid lips. poets whose words flood undammed from mad minds, whose thoughts […]