Now that we've had drought and flood we've seen the many transits of Spring and Summer of Spring to Summer of Summer to something else we've seen strange crossings the turtle crossing road just outside of Smith's Falls painted or snapping, unusually Blanding's on the chemin d'Aylmer ducks crossing proudly from the Ottawa River to the wetlands to the north the grass is always greener and under the Heron transitway station road to aylmer just outside of downtown and leopard frogs crossing under heron transitway station in the rain nor did any of these have plausible deniability when they so blatantly flaunted their need to take the right of way to enjoy what's straightforwardly theirs and any who challenge their plodding persistence are surely unreliable witnesses testifying to fake news and alternative facts when clearly seeing is believing whatever the orange man says and says again "What you're seeing and what yo...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!