Party Time

Hey ho my blog chums,

I know, I know, I’ve designed these posts to be inspirational and (hopefully) literary in nature, but I want to momentarily break with this fine tradition to invite you to a party.

If you live anywhere near the western shores of Vancouver, British Columbia, then I’d like to invite you to an evening of fun and frivolity and inspiration.

I’d like to ... invite ... you... (ellipses for suspense!) ... to ... my...

Book Launch Party!!

(blow party favours and clap wildly here)

The details:

This Saturday, Sept. 21, 7 - 9 pm 

Regent College, Vancouver BC

(5800 University Blvd on the campus of UBC)

Live music with the wonderful Ryan McAllister of Cowboys and Indians fame! Food! And drinks! Doorprizes! And, of course, a wee bit of book blather.

Please come. Really, I'd love it if you came!

The Milky Way

I saw
the Milky Way
last night.

It had been
eight months since
last I’d seen it,

living as I do
in the ambient glow
of a big city,

and living
as I do
inside.

But last night,
rocking on the smooth
lap of the sea,

I took three steps
from boat’s cabin
to cockpit

and stepped
into
the universe.

The Milky Way,
stretched like a spangled net,
snagged me by

my outstretched heart
and tossed me
into the square ladle

of the Big Dipper,
where I lay free floating
and gasping.

And then a silver thread,
cast down from above --
The North Star,

Leading me 

home and into the heart
of all things.