Brennan's Old Blog

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. -Jack Layton

 

20: Becoming an Adult

The Birthday Cake | Source Turning Twenty is Weird. From a pragmatic — perhaps arbitrary — point of view, birthdays are really weird. To celebrate the day you began to exist on your own, with balloons and cake. We enumerate ourselves, systematizing our time spent surviving...

You Can’t Escape It

Kids Running | Source My peers — and a multitude of others — attempt to create an incredible life, from a list of incredible things. The Bucket List, as it’s usually called, is well-established as various fantastical objectives that you’d want to accomplish before you...

Dawn of Ursa Minor

Morning in Pine Forest | Source The detritus of the forest had already begun to cool down in Nelson. Autumn had bled throughout the coast, leaving a film of frost on the leaves of fallen trees. Branches the shade of crude...

A New Quest

Impression, Sunrise | Source Finding the Middle Way and unlearning anxiety. Soria Moria | Source It’s a balmy Saturday afternoon, the hottest it’s been in Calgary so far this year. My 20th birthday is only eleven days away. I don’t know if...