<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from jayward33.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 jayward33.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle>Heather&apos;s blog</subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-21T00:54:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-20:links.412191673</id><title>Spin, spin, spin...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/spin_spin_spin.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/spin_spin_spin.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-20T20:08:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-20T20:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-18:links.412191426</id><title>CONVERSATIONS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/conversations.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/conversations.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-18T23:09:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-18T23:09:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412191247</id><title>EARTHQUAKES and FLATULENCE from the RIGHT</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/earthquakes_and_flatulance_from_the_right.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/earthquakes_and_flatulance_from_the_right.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T17:17:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T17:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412191095</id><title>IN THE LIARS ECHO CHAMBER</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_the_liars_echo_chamber.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_the_liars_echo_chamber.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T06:45:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T06:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-15:links.412190912</id><title>ECHO CHAMBER</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/echo_chamber.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/echo_chamber.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-15T21:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-15T21:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-14:links.412190834</id><title>FRIENDS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/friends_1.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/friends_1.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-14T17:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-14T17:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190742</id><title>HEADLINES</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/headlines.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/headlines.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T15:21:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T15:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-12:links.412190642</id><title>In retospect</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_retospect.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/in_retospect.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-12T17:41:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-12T17:41:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-11:links.412190318</id><title>REMEMBRANCE DAY 2009 the photos</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/rememberance_day_2009_the_photos.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/rememberance_day_2009_the_photos.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-11T23:16:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-11T23:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-11:links.412190034</id><title>Remberance Day 2009</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/remberance_day_2009.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/remberance_day_2009.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-11T06:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-11T06:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-10:links.412190046</id><title>DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/does_it_matter_to_you.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/does_it_matter_to_you.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-10T22:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-10T22:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412189879</id><title>TEARS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/tears.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/tears.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T16:10:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T16:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-08:links.412189809</id><title>BRILLIANCE IS OCCASIONAL but STUPID IS FOREVER.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brilliance_is_occasional_but_stupid_is_forever.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brilliance_is_occasional_but_stupid_is_forever.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-08T13:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-08T13:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-07:links.412189705</id><title>BRAIN SHAPING 101</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brain_shapping_101.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/brain_shapping_101.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-07T20:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-07T20:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-06:links.412189594</id><title>CRASHED again</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/crashed_again.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/crashed_again.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-06T20:34:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-06T20:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-05:links.412189465</id><title>WHERE DO WE LIVE?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/where_do_we_live.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/where_do_we_live.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-05T21:50:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-05T21:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-04:links.412189246</id><title>WE WON&apos;T BE FOOLED AGAIN, but don&apos;t bet on it.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/we_wont_be_fooled_again_but_dont_bet_on_it.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/we_wont_be_fooled_again_but_dont_bet_on_it.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-04T16:15:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-04T16:15:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-02:links.412189051</id><title>SHADOW OF A DOUBT</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/shadow_of_a_doubt.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/shadow_of_a_doubt.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-02T22:21:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-02T22:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-11-01:links.412188855</id><title>HALLOWEEN 2009</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/haloween_2009.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/haloween_2009.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-11-01T18:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-01T18:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-10-31:links.412188821</id><title>TRICK OR TREAT, or as the girls in the street below my window say, &quot;TRICK OR TRICK?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/trick_or_treat_or_as_the_girls_in_the_street_below_my_windo.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/trick_or_treat_or_as_the_girls_in_the_street_below_my_windo.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-10-31T19:21:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-31T19:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-10-30:links.412188708</id><title>OLYMPIC MOON</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/olympic_moon.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/olympic_moon.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-10-30T14:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-30T14:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-10-30:links.412188678</id><title>CBC Blues</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/cbc_blues.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/cbc_blues.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-10-30T07:36:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-30T07:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-10-29:links.412188613</id><title>MEDALS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/medals.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/medals.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-10-29T14:43:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-29T14:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-10-27:links.412188342</id><title>SACRIFICES...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/sacrifices.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/sacrifices.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-10-27T18:26:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-27T18:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:jayward33.blog-city.com,2009-10-27:links.412188270</id><title>To those who oppose the Public Option in the USA, Cancer won&apos;t wait.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/to_those_who_oppose_the_public_option_in_the_usa_cancer_won.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jayward33.blog-city.com/to_those_who_oppose_the_public_option_in_the_usa_cancer_won.htm"/><dc:creator>John-Ward Leighton</dc:creator><author><name>John-Ward Leighton</name></author><updated>2009-10-27T01:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-27T01:04:00Z</published></entry></feed>