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    Bailing Bucket is the creative blog of Rhett Soveran.

    Rhett lives in Calgary, AB, works as the Web Editor of WestJet's up! magazine and is married to Leah... More about Rhett Soveran.

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Monthly Archives: August 2006

A Change of Perception

If you don’t know this already, I have an eye problem. I see in paradoxes, quite literally (possibly figuratively). My sight, as it stands, is not that bad. It’s around -1. But here is the kicker! Kick! I have a defect! WHAT? A defect. It’s true, [...]
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Marriage–A Lifetime or a Minute

It just occured to me, while thinking about the traditional definition and status of marriage, that silence is often equated to a static state (sssssssssssss!). But I wonder if silence doesn’t provoke change. Let me go through this. Marriage, at least in its traditional sense, is a failing institution (please note, I say this as I [...]
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A Moment of Silence for Pluto

Who do we think we are? Hey, you! Ya, you! You aren’t a planet, you slow dwarf sphere! You are too far away from us to fit in with the regular crowd. WE of the planet EARTH, knower of all knowledge, keeper of all Grandma’s keepsakes, here and now reject you from [...]
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Thoughts at 115.

Today, I turned 115 years old. The sun rose in the east, across the Centre Street bridge like it did yesterday. It was a bit more orange today though and I wondered if the sun was burning the dawn smoke from forest fires kilometres away. The Bow River rippled, barely a foot above the rocks, [...]
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Mother F***** Snakes!

And we are back. Look people, I have a new job, my wedding is near, and soon shall be the time of my triumphant return to the internet. And since I have nothing to do right now, I am going to tell you about the greatest movie of the summer. Snakes on a Plane [...]
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