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

 

The Tragedy of Wanderlust

(Put your shoes on. Where are you going, and why are you going there? There is will when it comes to the coming and going. A voluntary compulsion. Perhaps this autotomy is mandatory, for if we do not choose our...

Sacred Carnality: Her

(A sunset will never look as good in a photograph as it does in real life. And yet, a sunset will never stop being photographed by people — until it stops setting. That’s how I go about writing her.) September, 2015 When...

Love Letter to Bow Trail Assessment Centre

“When there’s nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.”   — Stars, “Your Ex-Lover is Dead” “This is the last place I’d want to get a needle stuck in my arm.” My little brother Byron grinned at me, getting...

Four Seasons

i. GREEN SPRING The spring is humble in the prairies⁠ — she does not boast, nor does she shine. Instead offering a gentle, cold wind. Air for the metallic, uneasy blossoms to grow within. Every so often⁠ from the garden ground⁠ will sprout — the...