Allan Rae (alto)

Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Oct 15, 2020

Images Of Home

A Canadian Fall Outside My Front Door — Home is an interesting word. The definition, “where one resides”, is not particularly complicated. Its meaning, however individual, often changes over time. For me, home has always been the place I was raised, a physical location where experience crafted memories. Throughout the various stages of my life, those specific places…

Photography

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Photography

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Sep 25, 2020

Love, Mom

A Letter From My Mother Before She Died — My mother died from complications due to brain cancer on September 25, 2010. She was seventy eight. What I didn’t know, was that during her illness she had composed a number of letters to be read by my father and I after her death. They were, and are, priceless memories…

Parents

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Parents

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Aug 9, 2020

SNAPSHOTS Summer Challenge 2020

The Mask It Up Edition — No, I said masks, not bikini underwear! Despite what the above image may look like. But more on that in a second. New Header You may have noticed SNAPSHOTS homepage has a beautiful new header. This amazing image was taken by recently added SNAPSHOTS writer June Nguyen. Going forward, we are planning…

Photography

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Photography

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Published in Our Human Family

·Jun 10, 2020

So You Want to Be an Anti-Racist Ally

What it is, what it isn’t, and what it looks like — Everyone, save those who’ve been unconscious or off the technological grid for the past two weeks, has by now heard of George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man unnecessarily detained, abused, and ultimately killed by a Minneapolis police officer. …

White Privilege

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So You Want to Be an Anti-Racist Ally . . .

White Privilege

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Published in Our Human Family

·May 18, 2020

First Principles

What will it take for people to find compassion? — This poem is a part of “Equal People,” Our Human Family’s anthology of international poetry on equality and inclusivity. What will it take to let compassion reign to see beyond an icy gaze of neutrality to realize universality, the human within one born free hairless and guiltless as sky into this swollen congealed place defined…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Jan 21, 2019

He Really Thinks I Can’t See Him

Sound of my winter in B&W —

Photography

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Photography

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Dec 2, 2018

SNAPSHOTS Winter Challenge

where do you write? — I once read an interview with a well-known Canadian fiction writer who leaves her house every morning, strolls to a little English cottage on the far corner of her wooded property, and spends her writing time undisturbed; creating, plotting, considering, all while sipping hot cider, listening to nothing but the…

Photography

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Photography

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Dec 1, 2018

Results Are In

SNAPSHOTS texture challenge winners — “What texture challenge” you may rightly ask, given that these results are arriving significantly later than intended. I know “sometimes life gets in the way” is a lazy sounding reason, but it’s the one that best describes my past month. …

Photography

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Photography

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Nov 16, 2018

Before The Storm

goodbye fall — Took these shots last night, before getting an expected dumping of 10–15 cm of snow. Right now, we’re about half of that total.

Photography

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Photography

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Oct 28, 2018

Dogs In Snow

a canine nirvana — We woke up to it. Snow. Wet, cold, winter heralding snow. I don’t know, perhaps I’ve lived in the Great White North too long, but there is something fundamentally wrong with the white stuff on the ground before Halloween. Like Christmas trees in malls before Thanksgiving, just no. However, if you walk on four legs, lick your junk because you can, and take comfort rolling in dead things, well then today was your lucky day.

Dogs

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Dogs

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