How else can the COVID lockdown be described other than moderately memorable? It was a brave new world, with classes morphing into Zoom meetings, grocery stores mimicking the final stages of a municipal licensing bureau (as we took turns posing for our photos, albeit never smiling), everyone taking spacious turns […]
Robert Animikii Horton – Northern Reflections
My favourite time of year (and my favourite holiday) is upon us once again. It is time to creatively carve pumpkins, distribute an obscene amount of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to evening guests who arrive knocking, and discover what great horror movies greet us from our wonderful streaming services. ‘Tis […]
Time has melted away. We must have been dancing a long time. The stars are out. It’s time to say goodnight. Just as one makes their way to the edge of the dance floor (making peace with understanding through this dance enough to rest and merely observe), something indescribable happens. […]
Believe it or not, there was a moment in music history when guitar solos disappeared, turntables became instruments, and young people discovered that their emotional needs could be addressed by seven-string guitars tuned somewhere between drop-D and the Earth’s blazing core. We called it nu-metal. For those who came of […]
Sky above. Earth below. Fire within. That’s the best description I can express about slow dancing with the spirit of Anishinaabemowin. The poetics, the romantics, the art, the potential, the promise and the clarity. They are all present. When you carefully cradle and carry a burning passion for something meaningful […]
Sky above. Earth below. Fire within. That’s the best description I can express about slow dancing with the spirit of the Anishinaabemowin language. The poetics, the romantics, the art, the potential, the promise and the clarity. They are all present. When you carefully cradle and carry a burning passion for […]
Let’s say you have a deep love of learning. Imagine a way to learn history, spirituality, concepts, cultural cosmology and development, civic relationship dynamics, symbolism and art, philosophy, and unique ways of perceiving the world we share at the same time. Our world has a very effective way to do […]
Northern Reflections
By Robert Animikii Horton
By Robert Animikii Horton
This morning, I found myself in Wilson’s Office Supply. With a near-identical delivery to Brian in The Fast and the Furious explaining to Harry, “I need NOS. I need NOS. One. No, no, two! And I need them by tonight,” I expressed the need for Expo dry-erase markers with the […]
“She must know Rick ‘The Model’ Martel… probably Greg ‘The Hammer’ Valentine, too.” At least that’s what I figured. After all, when my sister would put me in the Boston Crab or the Figure Four Leglock when we were younger, she would apply it with excellence of execution. She had […]
It arrived as equal parts flash flood of liquid metal and a breath of fresh air—as if the sky split to spill the quicksilver while each inhale and exhale was delivered by the exhaust of a stealth bomber. Twenty-five years ago, industrial nu-metal battalion American Head Charge released the 2001 […]
There was no morning, no east where a sun might rise and no west into which it could vanish. There were no oceans reflecting moonlight, no mountains holding snow, and no breeze wrapping around leaves. Moreover, there was not a single eye and nothing for one to witness. And then, […]
There is something truly humbling about the learning curve that comes with owning your first home. Over the last couple of years, I have occasionally reached out to my phenomenal neighbours from my cul-de-sac, who have fielded random (but still semi-reasonable) questions from the new guy on the street. For […]
