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Uncomfortably numb ~ David Gilmour and I can’t put our finger on it

Written by Patrick on August 21, 2011 - 1 Comment
Categories: Music, Pop, Progressive Rock, Rock, Stories

I’m going to tell you a story about someone who became a part of my life in a way few other people ever experience. Well, I wonder about that. I wonder how many other people go about their day-to-day lives only vaguely aware that there’s something unusual going on in their life, but just can’t [...]

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We’re too good to be this political ~ Be the change you want to see in the world

Written by Patrick on May 29, 2010 - 15 Comments
Categories: Insight, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Political, Social, Spirituality, Stories

My first mistake today was climbing into the bathtub and picking up the May 31st, 2010 edition of Canada’s weekly news magazine, Macleans, rather than the copy of Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Tao, in which I’d thought to have a nice, long spiritual soak along with the hot water, and possibly bubbles. [...]

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Peter Gabriel’s “So” — change is coming down like red rain

Written by Patrick on March 7, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: Insight, Music, Progressive Rock

The text below (with some new edits) was posted as a link on my Facebook profile a week shy of three months ago. I’d just returned from a nearly 3 month-long road trip through the western US, preceded by 2 months in Australia. The story it tells begins to describe the unusual relationship I have [...]

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