February 2011 - My Journey with AIDS

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Resistance and recording history through music in Palestine

Songs from a Lost Homeland, which originally aired on Al Jazeera English last year, is in the programming rotation again this weekend. Is there a song in the west right now with even a small percentage of the punch of these musicians? I hope you get a...

Published Sat, Feb 26 2011 3:46 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, activism, politics, human rights, YouTube, creative arts, Israel-Palestine
Music of the movement

One of the first activists’ songs that had any resonance for me was “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” (1961) and then “Give Peace A Chance” (1969). Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” (1963) was an anthem...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 9:29 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, autobiography, activism, politics, human rights, YouTube, Riz Khan, Yusuf Islam, Al Jazeera English
As Libya and neighbours seethe, CPT reports on West Bank demolitions by Israel

CPTnet 23 February 2011 SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: Israeli military demolishes village of Amniyr Amniyr, South Hebron Hills, West Bank At 5:00 a.m. yesterday morning, the Israeli army, accompanied by members of the Israeli District Coordinating Office, arrived...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2011 5:08 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: activism, politics, human rights, Israel-Palestine
Back to paying greater attention

When this link Mindfulness and Psychotherapy nudged itself toward my consciousness today on my Facebook page I thought it worth exploring if only because I have too often come down hard on myself for having let slide my mindfulness mediation practice...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2011 12:59 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, mental health, mindfulness, meditation, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Two Beatles albums (from iTunes!) stir assorted memories

David Letterman, noting Yoko Ono’s 78th birthday last week, joked that she celebrated by breaking up The Jonas Brothers. Back in the twilight of sixties, perhaps early seventies, a much-appreciated Christmas gift (namely for my older brother Craig...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 2:00 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, writing, Québec, environment, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), restorative justice, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC, 1970s, air piano, Abbey Road album, Ed Sullivan Show, David Letterman, Yoko Ono, about nothing, Let It Be album, The Beatles, Le Fricot, air guitar
Awesome task (or perhaps not): bridging the perspective gap

Excerpts from my tweets and a RT from the past few hours: Death by daily repression and near-starvation or death by desperate martyrdom via the State responsible? Your choice? #Bahrain #Libya #Yemen MD from #Bahrain: “Pls, pls, where is the #UN;...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 2:06 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, youth, activism, politics, human rights, YouTube, biography/autobiography
Hope as verb, noun and/or feeling

Everything I am feeling in this moment is in the context of having watched, via television and Twitter, the roller-coaster of events in Egypt these past 18 days, of having just listened to the Feb. 6 (2011) edition of Tapestry from CBC Radio with Mary...

Published Sat, Feb 12 2011 1:03 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, mental illness, childhood trauma, child abuse, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, mental health, bipolar II, sexual abuse, recovery, CBC Radio "Tapestry", hope
Txt, telephone or…blog…let’s talk about mental illness!

This is Bell Let’s Talk Day. Multiple Olympic medallist Clara Hughes, lead spokesperson for the campaign, was on CTV’s News at Noon in Toronto. From among the calls she fielded came this articulate gem, “To kill the pain too often means...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 11:48 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, mental illness, childhood trauma, activism, AIDS and HIV, health-care, mental health, bipolar II, stigma, friendship, youth suicide, Bell Let's Talk Day
Shelter from the St. Valentine♥s Day Ma$$acre

Having, hopefully, just paid at least the minimum owing on their Christmas credit card bills, gluttonous consumers are now being cajoled into the can’t-win Valentine’s Day debacle. Take heart…PLEASE! First of all, what are we teaching...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 7:36 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: activism, heart-health charities, fair trade chocolate, fair trade diamonds, ethical Valentine's Day
Unpacking (more) personal baggage

Pardon me for the humourless dissecting of my neuroses Have I mentioned before having used, for many years, the esteem-busting mantra “If anyone deserves AIDS, I do!” (Looking at it now I feel like each word should be italicized for emphasis, rather than...

Published Sun, Feb 06 2011 9:21 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, autobiography, AIDS and HIV, stigma, sexual orientation, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, social conservatives, sexual abuse, Christianism, recovery, homophobia, youth suicide, self-forgiveness
30 years “out” – February 5

If ever I’ve had a “But for the grace of God, there go I” occasion (even though I have problems with that expression) it would have to be February 5, 1981 – thirty years ago today. At 11 p.m. that night, more than 150 police carried...

Published Sat, Feb 05 2011 12:39 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, politics, social justice, Toronto, homosexuality, fundamentalism, Claire Hoy, St. Catharines Standard, The Body Politic, Rick Bébout, Toronto Sun, Toronto bathhouse raids 1981, Chris Bearchell
Feeling powerless so far away from Egypt? Help change the Canadian government’s response!

Like so much of the world I have been transfixed on the dramatic events in Egypt, but feeling a little powerless to help – until I read about the Harper government’s response (which, I guess, we shouldn’t be surprised about)! What follows...

Published Fri, Feb 04 2011 2:07 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: activism, politics, human rights, Stephen Harper, Canadian Peace Alliance, Egypt, Hosni Mubarek

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Resistance and recording history through music in Palestine

Music of the movement

As Libya and neighbours seethe, CPT reports on West Bank demolitions by Israel

Back to paying greater attention

Two Beatles albums (from iTunes!) stir assorted memories

Awesome task (or perhaps not): bridging the perspective gap

Hope as verb, noun and/or feeling

Txt, telephone or…blog…let’s talk about mental illness!

Shelter from the St. Valentine♥s Day Ma$$acre

Unpacking (more) personal baggage

30 years “out” – February 5

Feeling powerless so far away from Egypt? Help change the Canadian government’s response!