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Signature Song of the Month
- December 2008: Christmas in Washington (Steve Earle)
- November 2008: God is God (Joan Baez)
- October 2008: Day After Tomorrow (Joan Baez)
- September 2008: Longest Days (John Mellencamp)
- August 2008: Τα Παιδια της Σαμαρινας (Nana Mouskouri)
- July 2008: The White Rose of Athens (Nana Mouskouri)
- June 2008: All That You Have Is Your Soul (Emmylou Harris)
- May 2008: Forever Young (Bob Dylan)
- April 2008: I'll Remember You (Bob Dylan)
- March 2008: Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris)
- February 2008: Radio Nowhere (Bruce Springsteen)
- January 2008: Xel [Think] (Youssou N'dour)
- December 2007: Dear Mr. President (Pink)
- November 2007: Everybody Hurts (R.E.M.)
- October 2007: Magic (Bruce Springsteen)
- September 2007: Há Uma Música Do Povo (Mariza)
- August 2007: The Long Way Around (Dixie Chicks)
"There is a world elsewhere." Check out our favourite links
- Greek Animal Rescue Canada
- Greek Animal Rescue
- Golden Rescue Canada
- Orangutan Outreach
- Born Free Foundation
- Utopia Rescue Ranch
- The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada
- PETA
- Join the Journey
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Tricoteuses Sans Frontières
- Kiva.org - Loans that change lives
- The Stephen Lewis Foundation
- LGen Romeo Dallaire (Retired)
- Amnesty International
- Conservation International
- PEN Canada
- Barbara Ehrenreich's Blog
- Beloit College Mindset List
Mariza sings Chuva
Nana Mouskouri sings "Fidaki" a cappella
Bailey and Bernhardt
Some Favourite Quotations (Literary and Otherwise)
- "I never heard of anyone being happy for forty-two years, and would a person who was happy for forty-two years write a book?" (Harriet Doerr in response to the question of whether she was happy for the forty-two years before she began to write.)
- "It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men." (Thucydides)
- "L'enfer, c'est les autres." (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- "Oderint dum metuant." (Emperor Tiberius)
- "Tα μεγιστα των αγαθων ημιν γιγνεται δια μανιας." (Socrates)
- "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." (Albert Einstein)
- "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." (Stephen Jay Gould)
- "Whenever a genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Jonathan Swift)
- "Life conspires to keep a woman tangled in trifles." (Maryon Kantaroff)
- "...the play was soup...the audience...art." (Jane Wagner)
- "I'm just a guy who probably should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I got sort of sidetracked here." (Steve Jobs)
- "When I say 'work' I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs." (Margaret Laurence)
- Θανατος δε τοι εξ αλος αυτω αβληχρος μαλα τοιος ελευσεται, ος κε σε πεφνη γηρα υπο λυπαρω αρημενον. Αμφι δε λαοι ολβιοι εσσονται. Τα δε τοι νημερτεα ειρω." (Homer)
- "When you get there, there is no there there." (Virginia Woolf)
- "Don't ever tell anybody anything." (J.D. Salinger)
A few beloved books (and their authors)
- The Odyssey (Homer)
- The Iliad (Homer)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez )
- The General in His Labyrinth (Gabriel García Márquez)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
- The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
- Stones for Ibarra (Harriet Doerr)
- The Tiger in the Grass (Harriet Doerr)
- The Way the Crow Flies (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
- The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
- Moral Disorder (Margaret Atwood)
- The Bleeding Heart (Marilyn French)
- Shake Hands with the Devil (Roméo Dallaire)
- The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (Thomas Lynch)
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