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  • Graeme

    GA's Newest Signature Author: kbois

    By Graeme

    Please join myself and the Author Promotion Team in congratulating kbois as GA's newest Signature Author! @kbois has been a member for 7 years and in that time she's developed from a relatively new author through to one that's reached the level of Signature Author. Her recent short stories Hide and Seek and Depth Perception are of particular note and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Congratulation, kbois!
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  • Aditus

    Talk Talk

    By Aditus

    Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we? #253 Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds. When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
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MDBCs 03 May 2024

May 3rd 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church) Antonia and Alexander Juvenal of Narni Moura (Coptic Church) Philip and James the Lesser Pope Alexander I Sarah the Martyr (Coptic Church)
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MDBCs 02 May 2024

May 2nd 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church). Athanasius of Alexandria (Western Christianity) Bolesław Strzelecki (Catholic Church) Boris I of Bulgaria (Bulgarian Orthodox Church) Germanus of Normandy
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明日の言葉

I sketched out the following moody Tanka several days ago. It sat on my desk, overwhelmed with thoughts of how to change it: alternate lines; different wordings; scrapping the whole damn thing. So this morning, I not only typed it -- keeping most of the poem as first scrawled -- but, as I completed it, suddenly felt an urge to translate it into Japanese. An interesting impulse, for the translation "finds the balance" missing in the original, and winds up beautifully optimistic. So, here the
AC Benus

AC Benus in verse

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MDBCs 30 Apr 2024

April 30th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Day (Georgia) Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion) Children's Day (Mexico) Christian feast day: Adjutor Aimo Amator, Peter and Louis Donatus of Evorea
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MDBCs 29 Apr 2024

April 29th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Catherine of Siena (Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican Church) Hugh of Cluny Robert of Molesme Wilfrid II April 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Remembra
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MDBCs 28 Apr 2024

April 28th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Aphrodisius and companions Gianna Beretta Molla Kirill of Turov (Orthodox, added to Roman Martyrology in 1969) Louis de Montfort Pamphilus of Sulmona Peter Chanel
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MDBCs 26 Apr 2024

April 26th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Chernobyl disaster related observances: Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus) Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia) Christian feast day: Aldobrandesca (or Alda) Franca
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MDBCs 25 Apr 2024

April 25th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand, Tonga) Christian feast day: Giovanni Battista Piamarta Major Rogation (Western Christianity) Mark the Evangelist Maughold Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
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MDBCs 24 Apr 2024

April 24th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia, France) Christian feast day: Benedict Menni Dermot of Armagh Dyfnan of Anglesey Ecgberht of Ripon Fidelis of Sigmaringen Gre
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Three Tanka

Tanka:   It must be summer – The flies press against the frame, For just like stained glass, Their wings flutter to escape The very presence of light.       Tanka:   My thoughts are worn out By how temporal is our plane; The things that we have In the world are all soon tossed, One tear always bringing more.       Tanka:   All the crowds are gone,
AC Benus

AC Benus in verse

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MDBCs 23 Apr 2024

April 23rd 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Adalbert of Prague Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus Saint George Blessed Giles of Assisi Gerard of Toul Ibar of Beggerin (Meath) Toyohiko Ka
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MDBCs 22 Apr 2024

April 22nd 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church) Arwald Epipodius and Alexander Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church) John Muir (Episcopal Church) Opportuna of Montreuil
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MDBCs 20 Apr 2024

April 20th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Agnes of Montepulciano Beuno Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran) Theotimos April 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) 420 (cannabis culture) UN Chinese Language Day (United Nations)   Observances (click on the day, BD
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MDBCs 19 Apr 2024

April 19th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Ælfheah of Canterbury (Anglican, Catholic) Conrad of Ascoli Emma of Lesum Expeditus George of Antioch Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Lutheran)
My Life and Times

Toronto the Good, no longer

I'm writing this because I read Edward Keenan's column in the Toronto Star newspaper today. It made me sad, angry and frustrated, with our city, those of us who live here, and most especially with those we elect to care for us and our city.  Mr. Keenan wrote so well about how this city was once known as Toronto the Good, and it was at one time that people here cared about each other. Now, not so much, as Mr. Keenan wrote, it is Toronto the Hostile...I'll add Toronto the Uncaring. We give to
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MDBCs 18 Apr 2024

April 18th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Apollonius the Apologist Corebus Cyril VI of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church) Eleutherius and Antia Galdino della Sala Molaise of Leighlin
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MDBCs 17 Apr 2024

April 17th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada) Stephen Harding April 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Evacuation Day (Syria), celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946. FAO Day (Iraq) Flag Day (American Samoa)
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MDBCs 16 Apr 2024

April 16th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Benedict Joseph Labre Bernadette Soubirous Drogo Engratia Fructuosus of Braga Isabella Gilmore (Church of England) Martyrs of Zaragoza
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MDBCs 15 Apr 2024

April 15th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abbo II of Metz Father Damien (The Episcopal Church) Hunna Paternus of Avranches April 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the Sun (North Korea)
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MDBCs 14 Apr 2024

April 14th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Ambedkar Jayanti (India) Bengali New Year (Bangladesh) Black Day (South Korea) Christian feast day: Anthony, John, and Eustathius Bénézet Henry Beard Delany (U.S. Episcopal Church)
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