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The Bitter Transmogrification of a Contamination Case: The Gbemre and Lago Agrio Cases in View (Part 1/3).

May it be untrue, for the sake of all the Earth. …

Environment

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The Bitter Transmogrification of a Contamination Case:
The Bitter Transmogrification of a Contamination Case:
Environment

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Works in Progress (WIPs).

Happy New Year! Tough year, but you made it! I'm happy for you. Quick question: Are fictional stories really based on invented facts, or are they stories which the real characters do not, for whatever reason(s), attest to as real after ‘The End’ had been written? Well, ‘fun’ fact about…

Storyofmylife

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WORKS IN PROGRESS
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Storyofmylife

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Mar 12

Musings on “Time”.

Maybe Time is on a Loop. The idea of Time — that it is precious, ever-fleeting and difficult if possible to recover — looms over our personal and collective existence. For many, it is frustrating to think that they just might be running out of time or are being chased…

Time

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Musings on “Time”.
Musings on “Time”.
Time

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Published in Blue Insights

·Mar 12, 2022

Mother’s Hearth

After we have done deals, you bring you, here’s me and we will call it ours as we gather again, like firewood in Mother’s hearth. And, as our rough edges kiss, sparking hot conversations about ghosts of moons gone, the fruit is a fire that cooks our spirit for the moons to come. And, after we have downed meals, wood depart, fire gasps for breath, but with puffed cheeks, we blow kisses from faraway lands to keep embers breathing

Blue Insights

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Mother’s Hearth.
Mother’s Hearth.
Blue Insights

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Published in Blue Insights

·Mar 12, 2022

Riverside by River

Chocolate water, home-thirsty travellers, groaning engines, bouncing boats, sprinting breeze, billowing shirts pained buttocks, straightening backs checking gunboats, pointed guns throttled speed, surrendering hands; higher, higher, even higher: “Where to?” Where else but home? Waving forests, ripening farms, big, miming waves, dancing canoes, curling creeks cuddled by loving creektowns, orange lights cast on black skies, like the sun stayed up late to welcome sons from faraway lands.

Riverside

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Riverside by River
Riverside by River
Riverside

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Jan 8, 2022

We must Recollect, Preserve and Share Our Stories.

I It was when I began seeing the chocolate water, waving forests, ripening farms, canoes dancing to miming waves, curling creeks curdled by creek towns and the orange lights of gas flaring cast on black skies, that I felt the depth of how much I had missed. …

Stories

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We must Recollect, Preserve and Share Our Stories.
We must Recollect, Preserve and Share Our Stories.
Stories

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Oct 23, 2021

COVID-19, Pollution and the Environment: Has the Messiah Come?

(First Written and Published in April 2020) Global Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emission levels have dropped considerably, following the outbreak of the pandemic that has resulted in the halt of a number of emission sources. …

Covid 19 Crisis

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COVID-19, Pollution and the Environment: Has the Messiah Come?
COVID-19, Pollution and the Environment: Has the Messiah Come?
Covid 19 Crisis

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