The Most Important Canadian Election: An Existential Crisis Fascists and other enemies of democracy, without and within, optimized the manipulation reality-twisting capabilities of the internet like the Nazis used mass media when it was new, and people didn’t know any better. Weakness is sold as strength, bullying as masculinity, cowardice as courage, conformity as unity, …
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In memory of my mum, Peggy Frizzell, who passed on this day, August 20th, in 2018. Writing from the heart is tricky when the source is broken. Leonard Cohen said that’s how the light gets in. People treat sorrow like a plague rather than a river that runs through life, which we all must drink …
Oreo Frizzell was born in Prince Edward County, in 2007, on a farm just outside Picton, Ontario. At six weeks old he moved to Cressy, Prince Edward County, after being picked up, early in the morning, by his newly adopted brother Colin, and his nephews Ryan and Mitchell. He was Christened, Oreo, by his niece, …
Arthur (Art) Colin Frizzell 1923- 2003. On July 2, 2003, our family—and the world—lost an exceptional person. In Memory A breeze across a field to cool the brow A cloud’s shadow moving through the garden The rain that falls when leaves are wilting A light guiding homeward when lost The answer that comes when befuddled …