B.A.L.L.S.: P.A.L.L.S.
Do you like candies, fresh little candies?
The ones that Grandma slips to you during
church that make the Minister's words
even brighter. How about skipping on a hot
sunny day through Gibbons Park? The
children are splashing and playing, the
geese are honking, the birds are singing
and a young man selling ice cream from a
cart happens by.
"I'll take two, please," you say, then hand one of them back to the ice cream man. "Here," you say, "You look hot, have an ice cream on me."
"Thank you sir," he says. "What's your name?"
"Dean," you say.
It's hard to skip whilst eating a treat, but boy is it ever fresh; a fresh little ice cream.
Really, when one stops and looks around, there are many people fighting for the betterment of our society and planet. Just here at Fanshawe are a number of individuals and groups dedicated to this cause. The treatment of the peoples of Darfur has a voice here at Fanshawe through the STAND organization under Angie Martin. Rebecca Croden is the president of the environmental club whose objective is to discuss ways to improve our planet's carbon footprint. The Zeitgeist movement is represented under Holly Labonté. In fact, the Venus project (with the Zeitgeist movement acting as the activist arm), under Jacque Fresco is an incredibly important social and economical movement. To paraphrase Jacque's message: We need to look at all the natural resources of our planet as a common heritage of all the peoples of the Earth. Anything less will be a repetition of the same cycle of problems.
There are groups dedicated to health, religion, LGBTQ, race, drug and alcohol addiction support groups, and the environment. There are many working hard at keeping the conversations going, many people who have taken a side in life and aren't afraid to defend it.
So where am I? Where do I fit into this? I am just a gonzo social commentator that hopes only to keep the conversation going. I don't know the answers; I don't even know the questions. I am heliocentric (that is the word you were looking for Dean), opinionated, self-centred, self-righteous, insecure and paranoid, but I love this planet, and that is where my heart lies. At the root of all my words is the hope only to better what I see as wrong. The smaller irritations in life are the symptoms of larger problems, like crabs on a toilet seat. I could focus on the positive and the righteous, or I could focus on the lowly and degenerate, but I choose neither. I choose the gray zone, the fringe in between. For some, like the author of that letter to the editor in the last issue, the glass is half full, for some the glass is half empty; I choose neither. To me, the glass is poorly engineered.
P.A.L.L.S. is Praising About Life in London and Society
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
"I'll take two, please," you say, then hand one of them back to the ice cream man. "Here," you say, "You look hot, have an ice cream on me."
"Thank you sir," he says. "What's your name?"
"Dean," you say.
It's hard to skip whilst eating a treat, but boy is it ever fresh; a fresh little ice cream.
Really, when one stops and looks around, there are many people fighting for the betterment of our society and planet. Just here at Fanshawe are a number of individuals and groups dedicated to this cause. The treatment of the peoples of Darfur has a voice here at Fanshawe through the STAND organization under Angie Martin. Rebecca Croden is the president of the environmental club whose objective is to discuss ways to improve our planet's carbon footprint. The Zeitgeist movement is represented under Holly Labonté. In fact, the Venus project (with the Zeitgeist movement acting as the activist arm), under Jacque Fresco is an incredibly important social and economical movement. To paraphrase Jacque's message: We need to look at all the natural resources of our planet as a common heritage of all the peoples of the Earth. Anything less will be a repetition of the same cycle of problems.
There are groups dedicated to health, religion, LGBTQ, race, drug and alcohol addiction support groups, and the environment. There are many working hard at keeping the conversations going, many people who have taken a side in life and aren't afraid to defend it.
So where am I? Where do I fit into this? I am just a gonzo social commentator that hopes only to keep the conversation going. I don't know the answers; I don't even know the questions. I am heliocentric (that is the word you were looking for Dean), opinionated, self-centred, self-righteous, insecure and paranoid, but I love this planet, and that is where my heart lies. At the root of all my words is the hope only to better what I see as wrong. The smaller irritations in life are the symptoms of larger problems, like crabs on a toilet seat. I could focus on the positive and the righteous, or I could focus on the lowly and degenerate, but I choose neither. I choose the gray zone, the fringe in between. For some, like the author of that letter to the editor in the last issue, the glass is half full, for some the glass is half empty; I choose neither. To me, the glass is poorly engineered.
P.A.L.L.S. is Praising About Life in London and Society
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
