Jill MacCormack
The Food we Eat--Why White People are Complicit in the Migrant Worker COVID-19 Crisis
BIPOC protests of late, if they have taught the dominant white, ruling culture anything, should have taught us that everyday our...
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Jill MacCormack
Jun 22, 20200 min read
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Jill MacCormack
Jun 21, 20200 min read
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Jun 21, 20200 min read
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Jill MacCormack
Jun 21, 20207 min read
Birding with Dad--May 30th, 2020 Bain Bird Count
Prelude: (May 30th, 2020-- my avid birder son, Lucas and I are up and on the road early--heading to the (eastern north) shore to meet my...
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Jill MacCormack
Jun 14, 20204 min read
Waterside Road mid-June and the Art of the Impossible
What sort of impossibility brings you to awareness of one moment, sudden or not? I wonder that at times. We said we must document this...
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Jill MacCormack
Jun 10, 20201 min read
A Shadow Dancing Wind
A Tanka for a soft air night. Wind dances shadows of Maple leaves on my wall. Outside the air, soft, surprises with its light touch....
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Jill MacCormack
May 26, 20202 min read
Indulging in Sad Poems--Gratitude Lost...and Found
What is it when gratitude fails you and those elements of human experience which endeared you to humans makes scarce? What is this long...
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Jill MacCormack
May 24, 20203 min read
Letter for Preservation of Royalty Oaks
To whom it may concern, I am an Islander and I am deeply in love with this place I call home. That deep love is rooted in the...
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Jill MacCormack
May 10, 20204 min read
Givers of Life
What if in this time of forced quieting, When the motions of the human world have slowed in many quarters, Slowed enough to feel the...
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Jill MacCormack
May 9, 20203 min read
05/25/2011 The Creativity Project
The original piece of writing which shaped the August 2011 manifestation of The Creativity Project still *feels relevant today. Perhaps...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 30, 20201 min read
Some People...
When I was eight years old my grade three teacher, Mrs. MacKinnon did a unit on poetry. As part of it she had us all write poems to...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 29, 20201 min read
A Poem with a Big Heart
One of my dear sisters is an extraordinary elementary school teacher (and general human). She, like the rest of us, was wrested out of...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 28, 20202 min read
Because Roads are Part of the Journey
Margaret Wise Brown was a children's author of much acclaim in the early to mid twentieth century. Best know for her beloved children's...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 27, 20201 min read
On the Eve of Impending Weather, Two Poems to Contemplate the Wind
The poems I am featuring for today are each weather related poems which my mother so beautifully recited to my siblings and I in our...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 26, 20202 min read
Origami, Butterfly and Poplar
The origami butterflies I made a few weeks back are starting to fall off my dining room window. The rainbow I made with them cheers me so...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 25, 20201 min read
A Poem by Juliana Horatia Ewing
Today's poem is taken from: The Oxford Book of Children's Verse edited by Iona and Peter Opie published by Oxford University Press 1973...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 24, 20201 min read
Wanting-- Penance-- Glory?
Confession--I wanted. Act of contrition: Because i knew my wanting was too large was problematic and without apparent end i knew without...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 23, 20202 min read
Poetic Kindness and Nine Gates
It was not very long into our writerly friendship when I was handed a book of his to borrow. Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry by...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 22, 20203 min read
Oh to be, Wild and Free, Again
Happy Earth Day O beloved, wild spaces wherefore art thou beloved, wild spaces? I don't know about you but my heart longs for a return to...
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