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Believe
Believe, first, And your mind slides and slams Like a bolt into place And the pixels of your Will resolve Into focus Like a friend’s face...
Alec Steinwall
Feb 25, 20241 min read


Hubble Ultra-Deep Field
During a three-month period, from September 2003 to January 2004, scientists operating the Hubble Space Telescope turned their...
Alec Steinwall
Mar 3, 20233 min read


Sonnet
For the First Page of a Brand New Journal Why should I fear to mar this empty page? Deface it with the scratching of my pen In the end it...
Alec Steinwall
Feb 24, 20211 min read


The Taste of Wine
Using only a box of coloured crayons I will give you the taste of the finest wine In reddish brown I will layer your tongue with notes of...
Alec Steinwall
Jun 10, 20201 min read


The Tree
Against the reddening sky there looms a towering, jagged cliff face. Like a scar in the land, bloodied by the setting sun, it speaks the...
Alec Steinwall
May 11, 20201 min read


The Monk
Rinzai studied philosophy. From a young age the questions of life irritated him like a pointed pebble in his sandal. He needed to find...
Alec Steinwall
May 11, 20201 min read


300 People
In my twenties, when I first began to date my former wife, she took me to visit her grandfather at the elderly care-facility where he was...
Alec Steinwall
Apr 28, 20204 min read


A New Normal
Guest Post: By Peter Windrem It’s hard to express exactly what is happening in the world presently. Let it suffice to say, a bit of a...
Alec Steinwall
Apr 27, 20203 min read


Our National Debt
I was thinking of the amount of Canada’s national debt, currently around 715 billion dollars (that’s federal debt only, with Provincial,...
Alec Steinwall
Apr 26, 20202 min read
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