<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>John-Ward Leighton @ jayward33.blog-city.com</title><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/</link><description>(John-Ward Leighton) Heather&apos;s blog</description><copyright>Copyright 2009 jayward33.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:08:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>John-Ward Leighton @ 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>WAKE UP CALL...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/wake_up_call.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/wake_up_call.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;SO YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN DANCE !&nbsp;The last entry brought a rebuke from a person I had assumed was a friend. I hadn&#39;t realized how protective he was about his privacy so that even the mere mention of his presence in a conversation offen]]></description></item><item><title>MARCHING TO THE DRUMMER</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/marching_to_the_drummer_1.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/marching_to_the_drummer_1.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:14:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;MARCHING TO THE DRUMMER IN INNER SPACEAn acquaintance and I had an interesting conversation yesterday at the Tongue. I talked about my facade and how sometimes my inner spaces was an empty desert. In it I seem to be mere reflections of my own f]]></description></item><item><title>THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CRANK</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jayward33.blog-city.com/the_gospel_according_to_crank.htm</guid><link>http://jayward33.blog-city.com/the_gospel_according_to_crank.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;In the gospel according to crankis it God or our dealer we thank?&nbsp;&nbsp;And while on the way to praycould we have another day .&nbsp;COMING OF AGEWhen will it happen,that magical moment,when all is revealed?The nirvana that we all seekboun]]></description></item><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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></channel></rss>