Salmon Kings Hockey - amazing goal - I was there. · Tuesday January 19, 2010 by colin newell
Play it a few times. I was at the game. This is some of the wildest hockey I have ever seen. And 22$ for a ticket.
The Canucks? An utter waste of space. I have been to Canucks games. They always lose. They always let me down. And the crowd at GM Place? Don’t get me started on these self important folks that go to Canucks games. They are generally there to be seen and not to watch the game…
Which is a good thing.
Because the Canucks suck.
Let’s go Salmon Kings!
Crisis in Haiti - More thoughts on the subject · Sunday January 17, 2010 by colin newell
Letter to the editor of the Times-Colonist…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said this week he was launching an appeal to raise $550 million for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase paid its investment bankers $9.3 billion in 2009.
That’s our world.
Ian Laval in Brentwood Bay
That is our World in 2010.
Let’s change it.
Crisis in Haiti - help however you can now. · Wednesday January 13, 2010 by colin newell
You can visit here (Your Red Cross), World Vision or whatever your preferred charitable organization is.
Give what you can.
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Fall colors changing seasons changing lives · Thursday October 22, 2009 by colin newell
On Monday evening, of this week, I was perusing a technical journal I wrote for in in the mid-seventies and was working on a bit of a tribute to the solidarity, brotherhood and sisterhood of the group of technical professionals – how it has changed my life and engendered and fostered lasting friendships.
And then around 8 PM my phone rang and I was summoned to a local hospital to be with a dear family member who succumbed to a long and exhausting illness.
In the end, she went quickly and peacefully – something all of us could
only wish for and hopefully achieve in our own personal journey through life.
What is kind of ironic were my thoughts leading up to that evening
on something as simple as a subscription to a hand-printed newsletter
from the seventies and how, by chance, I requested a free sample so
many years ago – that so many lasting friendships have been cast and hewn
by the fires of time and have resisted every challenge – including
death.
As word traveled throughout the evening it became quite apparent that my network of friends were way closer that I thought – They quickly formed a physical and spiritual circle around my wife and I – taking our hands in a time of need.
My thanks go out to this immediate circle of folks whose love and devotion I never entirely understood – now it is crystal clear.
And to my regular readers I offer a heart felt thanks – for those correspondents, reliable as gravity, have understood, that over the last 90 days or so, things have been somewhat difficult here.
Chapters are written and then closed – we now move on to the next phase of our life – Fall to Winter and then beyond.
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