<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from jayward33.blog-city.com</title><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/</link><description>Heather&apos;s blog</description><copyright>Copyright 2009 jayward33.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:54:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from jayward33.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Spin, spin, spin...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/spin_spin_spin.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/spin_spin_spin.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=spin%5Fspin%5Fspin</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Have been blocked for the last two days and although I&#39;ve read a lot of articles on current history have not seen anything that got my dander up enough to write about it.Then this mornings G&amp;M hit my desktop and I saw that the Tories we]]></description></item><item><title>CONVERSATIONS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/conversations.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/conversations.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=conversations</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;Coffee this morning at the Tongue with Kevin &quot;F&quot; and Ken &quot;B&quot;. My writing this morning is blocked for some reason. We gossiped a bit and then returned to whatever it was that we were doing. When I got back to my digs I]]></description></item><item><title>EARTHQUAKES and FLATULENCE from the RIGHT</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/earthquakes_and_flatulance_from_the_right.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/earthquakes_and_flatulance_from_the_right.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=earthquakes%5Fand%5Fflatulance%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fright</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[H1N1 shot today and hope the grandkids and their Mom and Dad have had theirs. Some of my buddies in the Gastown curmudgeon society&nbsp; are not getting the shots. Usually I don&#39;t get the yearly shot because I usually get sicker from the shot tha]]></description></item><item><title>IN THE LIARS ECHO CHAMBER</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_the_liars_echo_chamber.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_the_liars_echo_chamber.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=in%5Fthe%5Fliars%5Fecho%5Fchamber</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another wet and windy morning.&nbsp;IN THE LIARS ECHO CHAMBERThe banks are not to be trustedtheir faith is not true.Like a fighting dog untrained and unrestrainedthey will soon bite the hand that feeds them.They chant the mantathe m]]></description></item><item><title>ECHO CHAMBER</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/echo_chamber.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/echo_chamber.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=echo%5Fchamber</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;Am barely awake and the day is the usual winter grey with rain. Funny how that can seep through to your brain. There is a bit of a chill on the morning but I hesitate to get dressed or for that matter washed up. &nbsp;Have just put my cof]]></description></item><item><title>FRIENDS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/friends_1.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/friends_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=friends%5F1</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;FRIENDSThey are hereand then they are not.Some leave in the shadowssome choke and die on the spot.Their spirits leave their bodiesfor points unknownleaving behind their friends, andlovers and some children un-grown.We stand in the empty roomswi]]></description></item><item><title>HEADLINES</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/headlines.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/headlines.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=headlines</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CBC 1 on the sound track with all the problems of the &quot;gropes&quot; from the burbs wending their way into town on this windy and rainy morning. &nbsp;Big headline in this mornings Globe and Mail about the H1N1 flu virus and the death toll across]]></description></item><item><title>In retospect</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_retospect.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_retospect.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=in%5Fretospect</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The day after and I look to my own history, it seems like yesterday that I was presented with a small wooden crest celebrating my fiftieth anniversary of joining the army at nineteen years of age. Jimmy Carroll my comrade of many years joined a]]></description></item><item><title>REMEMBRANCE DAY 2009 the photos</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/rememberance_day_2009_the_photos.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/rememberance_day_2009_the_photos.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rememberance%5Fday%5F2009%5Fthe%5Fphotos</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;With Bri at the Tongue&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It didn&#39;t rain this year, about 20,000 in the crowd.&nbsp;IN PACE PARATUS&nbsp;JWL]]></description></item><item><title>Remberance Day 2009</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/remberance_day_2009.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/remberance_day_2009.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=remberance%5Fday%5F2009</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army&nbsp;In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid t]]></description></item><item><title>DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/does_it_matter_to_you.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/does_it_matter_to_you.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=does%5Fit%5Fmatter%5Fto%5Fyou</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve just spend the last three hours preparing tomorrows blog. I have borrowed the poems of several famous poets and submit one of my own to their storied ranks. My attitude toward this day is tinged with the sorrow that we have not evolved in ou]]></description></item><item><title>TEARS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/tears.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/tears.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tears</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TEARSthe white noiseof a radioand iTuneson at the same timesurfing the internetfor factoids to supportan argumentno one can winwar, what is it good foris it only for the benefitof those who would profitably waste someone else&#39;s livesthey have fac]]></description></item><item><title>BRILLIANCE IS OCCASIONAL but STUPID IS FOREVER.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brilliance_is_occasional_but_stupid_is_forever.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brilliance_is_occasional_but_stupid_is_forever.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=brilliance%5Fis%5Foccasional%5Fbut%5Fstupid%5Fis%5Fforever</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrall and Pender&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Outside an empty mall&nbsp;&nbsp;While making my coffee this morning after I put the kettle on to boil, ground my coffee beans, listening to the hill billy hour on WWOZ, I absent mindedly put two tea sp]]></description></item><item><title>BRAIN SHAPING 101</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brain_shapping_101.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brain_shapping_101.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=brain%5Fshapping%5F101</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Have just finished reading an e mail from John &quot;F&quot; where he refereed me to an article about how the internet was changing our brains and discouraging reading in depth for skimming and surfing for small snippets of information.I think the ma]]></description></item><item><title>CRASHED again</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/crashed_again.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/crashed_again.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=crashed%5Fagain</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My Blog site crashed again last night and after I got it back up my bookmarks had disappeared. I have managed to get a Neighborhood started with those sites I follow in Blog-city but this widget will not accept outside blog sites so will be putting d]]></description></item><item><title>WHERE DO WE LIVE?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/where_do_we_live.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/where_do_we_live.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=where%5Fdo%5Fwe%5Flive</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;VIEW FROM MY STAIRWELL&nbsp;&nbsp;ME TODAY&nbsp;&nbsp;STREET SCENE IN WATERCOLOR&nbsp;&nbsp;LOOKING AT ME LOOKING AT YOU&nbsp;&nbsp;Read an article from the NYT about a couple who broke up over the stress of living through the renovations of a]]></description></item><item><title>WE WON&apos;T BE FOOLED AGAIN, but don&apos;t bet on it.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/we_wont_be_fooled_again_but_dont_bet_on_it.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/we_wont_be_fooled_again_but_dont_bet_on_it.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=we%5Fwont%5Fbe%5Ffooled%5Fagain%5Fbut%5Fdont%5Fbet%5Fon%5Fit</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;A creative block, the doldrums of fall are here, there is less light and aside from street lights and the occasional un-shuttered window there is no natural light. Kinda suits my mood, there must be some bear in my DNA because I seem to want to]]></description></item><item><title>SHADOW OF A DOUBT</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/shadow_of_a_doubt.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/shadow_of_a_doubt.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=shadow%5Fof%5Fa%5Fdoubt</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;ON YOUR MARKS&nbsp;&nbsp;GET SET&nbsp;&nbsp;NO!&nbsp;&nbsp;THE SHADOW OF A DOUBTThe coffee is buzzing in my earsas the world dissolves into a puddle of tears.Talking to my daughter the other dayabout her mother who had passed away.Things are sa]]></description></item><item><title>HALLOWEEN 2009</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/haloween_2009.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/haloween_2009.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=haloween%5F2009</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember, daylight saving timeis over so roll over and have an extra hourof sleep.&nbsp;Ciao, JWL]]></description></item><item><title>TRICK OR TREAT, or as the girls in the street below my window say, &quot;TRICK OR TRICK?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/trick_or_treat_or_as_the_girls_in_the_street_below_my_windo.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/trick_or_treat_or_as_the_girls_in_the_street_below_my_windo.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=trick%5For%5Ftreat%5For%5Fas%5Fthe%5Fgirls%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fstreet%5Fbelow%5Fmy%5Fwindo</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Musing in a year that has almost gotten away from us, Halloween tonight when I will giving out goodies to my neighbors kids and taking their portraits for their parents and the Co-op newsletter.Prompted several people I haven&#39;t heard from in a lo]]></description></item><item><title>OLYMPIC MOON</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/olympic_moon.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/olympic_moon.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=olympic%5Fmoon</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Oh joy, the Olympic flame is about to arrive from Greece and all the talking heads on Canadian TV are so excited and breathlessly reporting the excitement of the dimwits selected to carry the &quot;flame&quot; and the efficiency of the Canadian]]></description></item><item><title>CBC Blues</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/cbc_blues.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/cbc_blues.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cbc%5Fblues</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As you no doubt know I am a fan of the CBC but it seems lately that they are going to great lengths to annoy their fan base at least on TV. CBC Newsworld has gone to another name change and the channel on Shaw is one of the affected channels that att]]></description></item><item><title>MEDALS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/medals.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/medals.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=medals</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;My morning rituals, the ingredients&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thank you Billy!&nbsp;The old inbox today reveals that there is a new medal proposed for those of us who served during &quot;The Cold War&quot; at Nato postings in Europe and remote areas of]]></description></item><item><title>SACRIFICES...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/sacrifices.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/sacrifices.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sacrifices</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[First coffee drank, CBC1 on he sound track and a quick scan of the news sites, and a fit of sneezing. I see there has been a resignation of a senior US diplomat in Afghanistan because he claims that the US has no clear policy to conduct the war or fo]]></description></item><item><title>To those who oppose the Public Option in the USA, Cancer won&apos;t wait.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/to_those_who_oppose_the_public_option_in_the_usa_cancer_won.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/to_those_who_oppose_the_public_option_in_the_usa_cancer_won.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=to%5Fthose%5Fwho%5Foppose%5Fthe%5Fpublic%5Foption%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fusa%5Fcancer%5Fwon</comments><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Having just lost several friends and members of my family to the disease and being a cancer survivor myself what Lance has to say is vitally important.&nbsp;October 26, 2009 10:37 a.m. EDTSTORY HIGHLIGHTS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; La]]></description></item></channel></rss>