Freedom, but the Peter Principle…

06/30/2023 Colin McGregor 0

By Colin McGregor     I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills                                                                        – William Wordsworth I have been asked to write an article about my first year in an apartment, fully paroled, after 29 years in prison and a […] See more

Learning the Hard Way

07/15/2022 Raymond Viger 0

By Raymond Viger I can remember an unorthodox intervention carried out while I was working with marginalized street kids. I helped a teenager become an adult. Let’s give him the fictional name Eric. He turned his life around. His criminal record dealt with, Eric no […] See more

The Fight – Poetry

03/18/2022 Raymond Viger 0

A poem from the book Liberté – Un sourire intérieur (Freedom – an Inner Smile) by Raymond Viger An anthology of poems to meditate upon. Each poem reveals a message, an emotion. The same poem can take on a different color, depending on your state of […] See more

From Dropout to Motivator (Part II)

01/10/2022 The Social Eyes 0

“My thing I’m proudest of is that I chose to build my life rather than destroy it,” says Nicolas Legault. At 35, this young man had some difficult challenges to overcome before realizing that a positive, perseverant attitude would lead him not only to go […] See more

From Dropout to Motivator (Part I)

12/28/2021 The Social Eyes 0

“My thing I’m proudest of is that I chose to build my life rather than destroy it,” says Nicolas Legault. At 35, this young man had some difficult challenges to overcome before realizing that a positive, perseverant attitude would lead him not only to go […] See more