Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The simple quiet of a warm summer afternoon. I’m watching one right now on a deck over looking a rocky yard and a small lake nearby.

    I grew up poor and never knew it until I grew older. We had enough but never enough for luxuries. In the summer I’d have a breakfast of tea and toast and be gone all day. I would go home for a small lunch and that was all the food I had and I never cared.

    On days like today, I would just go roaming around everywhere with my friends. Like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn we’d just be outside doing nothing and everything all day long.

    I’m in my 40s now, my bones ache, I tire easily and my friends are long gone either on their own path or gone from this life.

    I miss those days and I miss my friends.


  • We used to do a variation of this as kids with parents that couldn’t afford much.

    A warm bun that was left in the summer sun all afternoon, several thick slices of frozen butter and a freshly steaming hot boiled hot dog and nothing else.

    We’d gobble down about two or three of these and run around all afternoon until dark without a care in the world.


  • Person dies and arrives in the afterlife in hevaen … it looks like heaven but everything is a little fucked up. All water is actually alcohol, drinking alcohol doesn’t get you drunk, hamburgers make you high, Hitler is dancing around with children, everything is edible, you can speak any language but you have a really high pitched voice, there’s a constant slight smell of urine everywhere and angels are obnoxious assholes.






  • The problems always boil down to money and power.

    Everyone wants to rule the world and think and believe that they can become masters of the universe.

    No one can … a few of us might be able to attain that possibility momentarily but it will never be possible to make it last.

    So the problem lies with money and wealth.

    Remove and outlaw excessive wealth. Go ahead become a millionaire with ten million, no one will stop you but you are no longer allowed to gain any more than that.

    Once excessive wealth is removed and more people are able to share wealth and power … then we can talk about world problems like adults … equal adults who have an equal chance at the benefits but also an equal share of the risks of failure.

    Right now, the few people holding the power have no risks and only stand to benefit, no matter what happens, so they have no incentive to change. The majority who have no power risk losing everything but have no power to change anything.






  • I’m Indigenous and I live in northern Ontario … and I fully support our current government for what it is and most of the people I talk to around me feel the same.

    It’s only a very loud minority of self serving conservatives with a huge bone to pick and an oversized chip on their shoulder that talk non-stop about how terrible this government is. I see stickers on trucks, ads on the internet, ads on tv, ads in paper, constant bombardment from everywhere in public ads saying how bad the government is … while most of the people I talk to have no real ill feelings against the government and only a handful of hateful, spiteful, angry conservatives who go around saying how terrible our country is and blaming it on one single person for no real reason.

    Honestly, the only message I hear from conservatives is that they hate Justin Trudeau … some knowledgeable ones and those with a decent vocabulary can describe to me why they hate Trudeau … the rest just keep telling me we are living in a communist dictatorship and they demand their freedom back.

    I agree that this isn’t a perfect government … they could be doing so much more but as they are now, they are doing fine.

    It’s the conservatives I fear the most because if they achieve power, we will regress this country back to fighting between minorities/marginalized people/people of colour/indigenous and a vocal moral minority of conservatives that think they own the country.

    This isn’t a political campaign for any kind of ideology … its just another hate campaign designed to make one group fight another because of??? just because they want to be hateful and fight … then after the fight is over, they’ll continue fighting with everyone and blaming problems on those they deem less than themselves.


  • Also discovered something crazy about birthdays when it comes to athletics and competitive sports.

    An athletes chance of success are based on what month they are born. Depending on the sport, region and organizations and systems involved … if an athlete is born earlier in the year and the rank they are placed in starts at the beginning of the year, they have a better chance because they will almost be a year older than the player born at the end of the year. In Junior leagues or youth divisions at 10 years of age to 18 … a year makes a huge difference in the players.

    I learned all of this from talking to a few individuals who went through provincial level hockey in Ontario.

    When it comes to the top level sports … what month you are born really matters.


  • I have a friend like that …

    We’ll both be looking at something amazing, like fireworks, a magician, a street performer, a house fire, an air plane crash, a ufo has landed, or a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion … and even though he knows full well that the thing we’re looking at is so interesting that you can’t look away or ignore it, he will still tell me and others around us …

    LOOK AT THAT!, JUST LOOK AT THAT, SEE???, LOOK AT IT!! … while nudging, holding, turning people at the shoulder and pointing manically … LOOK AT IT, LOOK, YOU SEE THAT?, LOOK!!! … even after you acknowledge him and tell him you’re looking at it … LOOK AT IT!, YOU SEE THAT! LOOK!!!