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                                        One encompassing vastness | Elephant and Crocodile
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                                        At least aware of it →. March 21, 2013. My chest, heaving against my poles, lifted my body up and down slightly with each breath. Somewhere in the dark the lone raven cawed as it took flight. I closed my eyes and listened again for this raven. It was now silent, but I heard a different, unnatural sound. I held my breath and strained hard to listen. The sound was the quiet zip-zip, zip-zip. Of fabric rubbing against itself, the sound of another skier. I stood there listening to him, side-by-side with this...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Letter to the Edmonton Journal: uselessness of more violence in Syria | Elephant and Crocodile
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                                        Letter to the Edmonton Journal: uselessness of more violence in Syria. September 8, 2013. Below is the full text which I submitted to the Edmonton Journal’s letter section. The edited version they printed is here. RE: Syrian chemical attack wakes up west. Andrew Coyne. Saturday 31. I have two problems with the West’s rationale for intervening in Syria that no one, Andrew Coyne included, appears to want to discuss. First, why are chemical weapons classified as WMDs? We are already paying a price for our p...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Elephant and Crocodile | Page 2
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                                        Newer posts →. Reminded of this little corner of Baden. March 11, 2013. Memory is mysterious. The sight of a certain rounded table edge in a restaurant sends me back to when I followed my parents around our town’s nursing home to hand out holy communion on Sunday afternoons. Front the moment we stepped inside the double glass doors of the café my memory swept me out of charming Europe and back to the plain prairies of Alberta, specifically our town’s nursing home. December 7, 2012. We’d turn that corner ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        The boardroom | Elephant and Crocodile
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                                        At least aware of it. March 26, 2013. To pay the bills, Jack worked as a middle manager at Sherwitt and Sons, a shipping company. He didn’t like his job; he didn’t dislike it. That was all beside the point. He worked to get a paycheck, nothing more, and he did his best to keep his likes and dislikes for his evenings and weekends. On his way out of the elevator he saw Walter Burns, the Chief Operating Officer. Their sons played little league together. Here early for a good seat, Wally? Walter looked up, h...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Graham Lettner | Elephant and Crocodile
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                                        Author Archives: Graham Lettner. My wife and I recently moved from Zambia back home to Alberta. I'm lucky to have been asked to be a guest blogger for the Localize Project. I love writing stories, and when the subject is food - something that connects us to the planet and to each other - the stories are endless. Letter to the Edmonton Journal: uselessness of more violence in Syria. September 8, 2013. August 27, 2013. March 26, 2013. At least aware of it. March 25, 2013. Out walking with his wife, they bu...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Lemonade | Elephant and Crocodile
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                                        Letter to the Edmonton Journal: uselessness of more violence in Syria →. August 27, 2013. He took the lawnmower and turned it upside down. Something was wrong; something was broken. It wouldn’t start. He pushed the blade around with his finger, checking if it was somehow blocked. His finger slipped and he felt a warm liquid and then a sting of pain. He had cut himself. The blade was sharp and he had tried to push it in the wrong direction. Taking his finger out of his mouth, he walked across the street&#...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        At least aware of it | Elephant and Crocodile
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                                        The boardroom →. At least aware of it. March 25, 2013. He belatedly recognized his ill-will and chastised himself again. But, by God, it was hard. Out of the corner of his eye his wife caught his attention. She had been making some kind of unnatural gesture with her hand as she talked. Coming back out of his own head he realized she was trying to rescue him: he had been staring at this woman what was her name. For far too long. View all posts by Graham Lettner →. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.