Bad News Tovarich

Cols:

I have a problem. I hoped to have good news for you but this is not the case.

The situation is this. Three medical professionals in Ontario have diagnosed me as having a brain trauma injury resulting from the car accident. One medical professional in Quebec has an alternate opinion.
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A Hunger For Beauty

It is a beautiful day fall today. The sun is out, the trees are turning, the wind is buoyant and warm. On the way to the photocopy shop, I had this urge to devote the rest of the daylight hours to photography. I had a hunger for beauty in all its forms. And it came to me that this urge to create, to find, or to identify beauty, this need to envision beauty within the confines of my world, is a drive that originates with my youth. This hunger arose as an antidote to the beatings and ostracism I suffered at the hands of my peer group. The beatings ended long ago but the hunger for beauty has remained consistent for the last 50 years.
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