by Torry Harris | Feb 16, 2017 | Guest Bloggers
This is a picture I took on a trip to Red Rock Nevada, a week in this beautiful landscape and my mind felt so relieved. On one of the days we went to Las Vegas instead, and let me tell you, I could feel the anxiety engulf me there. Sometimes it’s hard to quantify the...
by Torry Harris | Dec 22, 2016 | Guest Bloggers
Humans are inherently social beings. Even the most introverted among us crave some level of interaction and even physical touch. However, in my life, and I am beginning to find increasingly in others’ as well, relationships have been one of the most harrowing and...
by Torry Harris | Nov 14, 2016 | Guest Bloggers
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual’s pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.” ― Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography My name is Ilia Fernandez and I’m in...
by Torry Harris | Oct 11, 2016 | Guest Bloggers
Autumn is a season of transition. Change. Slowly, the trees are shedding emerald garb in favour of majestic reds, browns and orange. Temperatures are declining, and the first sting of frost becomes apparent as the sun drops away behind the mountains each night. Here,...
by Torry Harris | Jun 17, 2016 | Guest Bloggers
This letter was written by a grieving father in memory of his daughter, a UVic student who passed away by suicide …You I love you. Always have and always will. Ever since you appeared as that little smiling baby with a perfectly round head. And your name, translated...