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A Message of Good Wishes

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Family Love is Strong

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas

Enjoy the festive season

With family and friends

Near and dear

Or from afar

Born into a clan of your kin

Adopted or married into a family

Or cherished through the bond of friendship

Embrace the love and warmth

That is family

And celebrate with your loved ones

In the spirit of your traditions

Thankful and grateful

For our treasures in life

Cheers to Everyone,

Thom Costea, Author

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We’re not trying to be tacky but having fun, so to speak, is a central theme of the FUN Revolution; a quest for personal freedom and social equality by embracing the liberties of a fair yet inspiring society nurturing everyone to fulfill their potential and benefit from a decent standard of living. But how do we get there? How about walking down the middle of the road using common sense to bring us peace and contentment, rather than shouting biased rants and selfish agendas from the ditch on either extreme side of the road? How about a new revolution for things that are real and things that really matter?

True freedom usually has two aspects: personal inner peace without aggravation or anxiety, combined with a respectful democratic society fostering justice and liberty. But it can be a struggle just to survive in today’s socio-economic landscape with the immediacy of electronic media and planetary communications, let alone managing to live a happy and healthy life. It is the new millennium challenge to find our FUN place in life and strive for reasonable comfort and satisfaction; all without abandoning the foundations we have built for a functioning society, or getting discouraged and depressed about our future.

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Struggle for Survival

The wildfires are currently raging in northern Canada, comparatively speaking. Do not make any mistake about it, a wildfire can be a frightful and life threatening experience for many people, but it’s not all bad news. The fire disaster in Hawaii was exceptionally horrific this year to be sure, but that raging inferno was not completely due to natural causes, so it seems. The frequency and intensity of forest fires in Northwest Territories and British Columbia are currently looming with potential devastation to property or life; taxing people to the limit creating stress and shock, let alone scrambling with evacuation logistics . . . This is quite alarming to many people, yet as long as there is limited loss of life and damage to property, there is good news on the horizon . . .  

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Struggle for Survival

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Campfire Symmetry

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Another Exciting Teaser from

47 Trees: A Cosmic Crusade, Part I

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Let your imagination take you for a thrilling ride on the crest of an interstellar wave . . . check out the author's visual rendition of this enthralling spiritual fantasy . . .

"Fuel cell thrusters, with their technology already highly advanced, were stacked at the symmetrical centre of a spacecraft―the engine core―and once a critical speed was attained with forward thrust, a spherical array of intensely fused plasma particles was released through a circular bank of emitters located in the middle deck of the vessel; a procedure known as corridor dispersal . . .

"The spherical array, led by a forward stream flowing out the bow of the ship, is shaped by the port, starboard and stern emitters with manipulated particle acceleration in the same manner as the graviton pulse; encompassing the entire vessel in a propelled corridor of plasma, with particle array continuity maintained by electromagnetic deflectors inside the corridor . . .

"The plasma dispersal array attracts positrons found in dark energy gamma-rays which interact with electrons in the process of antimatter annihilation to create ionized forward propulsion, while the E.M. deflectors protect the ship’s structural integrity and eliminate gravitational force at high speeds for passengers inside; essentially by floating the spacecraft in the middle of the plasma corridor, like an aerated bubble pulse streaming across the surface of water . . .

"The new technology, known as corridor propulsion, was installed on large-scale space ships beginning in the last decade of the thirty-eighth century . . . "

- Chapter 24: Quantum Mechanics

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Nature Trail Medley

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The Excitement and Mystique of the Dangerous River

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The rushing water of this bold river beckoned our canoes yet again about halfway through our two weeks on the water. It seems every whitewater runner is faced with a critical challenge, and this was our moment. The river reeled its dangerous head in our direction on this particular morning. Two small islands split the fierce current at the rapids downstream from Hell’s Gate where Wrigley Creek spews into the river. The force of the current collides on the far side of the islands and forms wicked whirlpools, known to suck down vessels and bodies.

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South Nahanni River

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Recent Teasers from

47 Trees: A Cosmic Crusade, Part I

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This warrior is a solidly built young looking man who has actually lived hundreds of thousands of years; virtually immortal it seems because of many trips that have taken him several billions of annual continua through distant dimensional corridors, due to the demand on his acute skills. He is very tall with dark, straggled hair and almost always showing the shadow growth of an early beard. He is firm and muscular, especially considering his age, and carries a prehistoric look to go with the many years he has transpired. He was only wearing moose skin pants at that space and time.

The morning of fishing was a relaxing and welcome break for Bruno. He just returned from Planet Dlailia where he served as a bark shredder; the warriors who cover the flanks on tree raids. It is one of the most challenging and demanding of all tree raid positions. Bruno battled through rain, sleet, brutal cold and nasty gravity fields. He faced the possibility of losing his core on several occasions. And he knew the agony associated with being coreless. Bruno could not imagine life without a core.

Chapter 25: Muh

The aesthetic heaven was finally complete. The spiritual fibre in the one heaven lived in the gods, the trees, the land and the water. The USF lived in the vapour demons, the wizards and we wind warriors: except for one last remaining USF which Gorb of the aspens saved and kept hidden in the forested canyon. Gorb did this, insightfully, without the knowledge of the other gods.

They, the gods, were soon content to live within themselves. It seemed they were satisfied and happy with their new aesthetic heaven; it seemed the new heaven would endure a peaceful life embraced by the tranquility of the trees.

It seemed.

Chapter 8: The Void

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Get Outside and Go Camping

We hit the trail in moderate sunshine with a few clouds drifting across the sky, but as luck would dictate on this ritual of mine to welcome spring with some backcountry camping, the clouds soon accumulated and socked us in for the weekend. It wasn’t an ambitious undertaking; just a two-night backpacking trip into the alluring boreal bush of Canada’s Quetico Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario, yet it always recharged my nature loving batteries and stoked me up for another season of camping.

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Marvel at the Wonders

of the Heavens

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Thunderstorm

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Zachary Steele was inspired by his most recent vampire vision on the Yuba River in California, during the late twentieth century of a non-interstellar era planet, so to speak. It was the summer of 1989 in the northern hemisphere of Planet Earth and Zachary was attempting to finish his family tree.

He came to realize the significance of this nemesis figure in his lifelong battle with morality―which was integral to his spiritual journey―and he may have found a clue through his genealogy search indicating why his vision manifested into a vampire. However, he was still uncertain of the reason for his visionary interstellar flight since childhood, the true meaning of the owls in his encounters with nature, and the current location of his parents, let alone the exact details of his ancestry . . .

“I probably have more questions, but I’m a little confused right now.”

“That’s quite normal. Remember Zachary, you have to believe.”

Beatrice Bagwa’s last few words faded into a fury of spark and glitter spinning around her body in a mosaic of colour; lifting into the air as the apparition bolted into the sky and over the horizon with a tail of blue haze.

The family tree researcher sat down and firmly grasped his bottle of whiskey. He slunk beside the fire as if he was entwined in a drugged stupor. He looked back to where the old lady was standing. He needed more fire. Zachary grabbed another two logs and set them on the coals. They quickly flamed. The flickering heat danced a soothing ballad and eventually put him to sleep.

Zachary left the Churchill River a very confused man.

Chapter 19: Venture North

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They watched in amazement as the small gift of nature revealed its subtle eminence. A swelling wave of water curled downriver and spread from bank to bank, plunging down the basin and rising up the slope of the shoreline as it flowed: a wall of water, moving, rising and travelling along the miraculous path of a living river. It took flight in Zachary’s brewing imagination, and he saw the vampires rising in his mind. He dropped to his knees and trembled, but it was too late: the river had taken him back to his battle . . .

Thoughts of his adolescent and young adult years entered his mind. He remembered the visions of fluttering owls escorting him along waterways and hiking trails during summer wilderness trips, and being profoundly awakened by the soft song of an owl one misty morning while camping alone. But then he heard the city traffic and the giant air conditioner from the apartment building across the street; his bedroom tucked in that monstrosity of a three-storey haunted house ― where he walked the hallways at night and the vampires would come rising from the cracks in the dark, oiled hardwood floors . . .

It was exhilarating as he soared through the cosmos, but true to the warnings of his dear old auntie who told him never to release his lifeline―the gleaming power source that emanated from his navel like an umbilical cord―the vampire would always turn against him somewhere in the distant galaxies; tempting his resolve by offering him this immortal freedom of flight in exchange for a meal of his soul, and testing his courage over and over by threatening his destruction.

“I will devour you. You will scream in pain as I rip your flesh apart,” the vampire would snarl.

“No, I am better than you. You cannot defeat me,” Zachary would collect himself in defiance.

Chapter 3: An Owl Story

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Two Camps

and the Common Ground

A long time ago, hundreds of years ago in fact, there was a river valley without pavement, roads, concrete bridges, buildings and the sort, in what is now Canada. There in the river valley amongst trees, rocks and sandy shores came a group of mainly men with some women. They were called coureurs des bois, known as wood-runners or bush-lopers to the Europeans who were already living on the new continent in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The coureurs came across the ocean in boats and were greeted by indigenous people who had existed in the valley for thousands of years.

Stepping Out the Door

The great outdoors; one of my favourite subjects. So, what’s so great about the outdoors? Why would someone devote an entire blog to nothing other than dirt, grass, rocks, a few trees and maybe some water here and there?

Nature's Force

The elements of nature have once again reared their might and force to show us mere mortals who is boss. Although industrial practices may be making weather more severe than Earth’s very recent climatic history, we humans are constantly reminded that some forces of nature can never be controlled. Only days prior to publication of this commentary, thunderstorm systems moving through river basin valleys manifested into tornadoes that touched down in Canada’s capital city Ottawa, as well as an area near Montreal, Quebec.

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Another Teaser from

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Documents scattered about; his face lay on the desk. The small reading light seemed to burn a hole in the back of his head, revealing a cluttered collection of minute details and dastardly spirits fleeting through his mind. He was working at the same desk for sixteen hours.

Flayda Findstad quietly inserted his key into the library door, but before he could turn the knob the door opened on its own as if being seduced by some roused presence. The library reeked of the rancid spirits which fluttered in the mind of the man at the desk; he was obviously working too hard . . .

Flayda gazed inside the library and saw his friend. He was asleep; still sitting at his desk. Flayda walked across the room and looked down at his friend’s face; pensively etched with helpless fear.

Chapter 3: An Owl Story

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The Planetary Tug of War

A look at greenhouse gases and development of the energy and industrial production sector . . .

Planet Earth is an amazing, powerful and resilient creation of geological gyrations, atmospheric patterns, climatic variations, enormous spectacular waterways, and lush diverse ecologies of flora and fauna (including humans), all reacting to the dynamics of radiation, heat and the deep freeze, as well as continuous interactions by three of the four states of matter―solid, liquid and gas . . . Wow, absolutely stunning.

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Another Teaser from

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Poetry from Campfire Symmetry

Nature's Symmetry

Spirit Boreal

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