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Entries from January 2013

Today: The Last Leap of January!

January 31st, 2013 · No Comments

“Fear and Leaping” happens at noon today at the Multi-Faith Centre.
One more hour to write about relationships. Then you’re on your own!

For more information and to register: http://uoft.me/poet

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Fear and Leaping

January 25th, 2013 · No Comments

The last session of the series Leaps and Boundaries: Navigating Relationships happens Thursday January 31st from Noon-1Pm at the Multi-Faith Centre.

Whether or not you’ve ever attended a workshop, you’re welcome to come. You don’t need to be a “poet” either, you only need to want to explore through writing.

How do you navigate being involved in your life? Whether your involvement is with a partner, a family member, a community, or a passion: how do you engage while setting boundaries? Using poems as starting points, this series of writing workshops will navigate the sometimes wild ride of our daily interactions, the necessary leaps and limits.

Session 1. Showing Up

Session 2. What if you can’t say no? (or, The Underbelly of Yes)

Session 3. Fear and Leaping

January 17, 24, 31, 2013

Thursdays, Noon-1PM

Multi-Faith Centre

Please register @ http://uoft.me/poet

 

 

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Protest at College Park: What Kind of Problem?

January 16th, 2013 · No Comments

At 1:30pm today a group was gathered in College Park as I was walking past, and a frill of policemen in yellow stood around. I asked the story, and a tall one quipped: “an old real estate problem.” It took a flicker for me to say “is this an aboriginal protest?” I walked away, down to where they were pounding and singing, and I stood there.

But it made me so mad what he had said that I went back to tell him, who apologized, but only because he knew he should, not because he felt it. And I wish I’d asked: if the Nazis’ stealing gold from the teeth of Jews was an old dental problem; or the slave trade an old question of changing property values. I wish I could have reached up and punched him in his tall, white, handsome face so far removed from retribution that reproach was only a word from his boss. When he said he didn’t mean to be dismissive, I said it was to me, and if there were more like me perhaps he could consider. He was polite. Which he could afford to be. And so was I.

Ronna Bloom

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A new series starts this month

January 4th, 2013 · No Comments

Leaps and Boundaries: Navigating Relationships

How do you navigate being involved in your life? Whether your involvement is with a partner, a family member, a community, or a passion: how do you engage while setting boundaries? Using poems as starting points, this series of writing workshops will navigate the sometimes wild ride of our daily interactions, the necessary leaps and limits.

 

Session 1. Showing Up

Session 2. What if you can’t say no? (or, The Underbelly of Yes)

Session 3. Fear and Leaping

 

January 17, 24, 31, 2013

Thursdays, Noon-1PM

Multi-Faith Centre

Please register @ http://uoft.me/poet

 

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