12/19/09

Reading horror while trying to maintain a normal composure on public transit.

Almost finished reading The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. I'm taking my time - reading while riding City Transit - the bus. The Canterbury Tales tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Caterbury Catherdral. The particular translation that I am reading, is translated from Middle English; but offers the Middle English translation on all EVEN pages, and Modern English on all ODD pages.

Before Canterbury Tales, I read ... well a few books, but a few books ago, I read Dracula by Bram Stoker. What an amazing read that was! Reading horror while trying to maintain a normal composure on public transit.

I'm involved in a ministry called The Harbour. it's a 12 Step Support Group. I am Program Director/Secretary-Treasurer - working along-side 5 others on a Board. I've been doing the work for it at an office where it is affiliated with , but will begin using my home office as much as possible. I began going to a Support Group after my friend committed suicide about four years ago. After being there two weeks, I was running the PowerPoint slides/projector for the group. I was eventually hired by the Church that the program was in, to work with that specific program. I worked with it for just over a year. That specific group was dropped from the church that it was in; suddenly the Elders decided that the 67 - 90 people that came every single Tuesday night were no longer important - so the program was tossed. (along with my job). In March of 2008, a group of people began to meet and talk about beginning a new group. The new 12 step support group officially began in June, 2008, with the name The Harbour. I've built a website for it.

blah blah blah blah. write write write write. that last paragraph was far too long.

It's Christmas time - the second Christmas without my mom... I really miss her.

here's a video of myself and a friend driving down Pembina Hwy in Winnipeg last year.