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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.

    Each post has at least two lies (that's probably a lie).

Monthly Archives: June 2009

Something to be passionate about

I’ve been thinking about the suburbs a lot lately. I’ve been thinking a lot about what they mean to me and about me. Often, I feel the need to defend myself for making that choice. I say something like I live in the suburbs of 50 years ago. Which is true [...]
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Time to be a man

I never thought this day would come. But I think it’s time to be a man. And frankly, I’m not really all that interested in becoming a man. It seems like its probably going to be awful. What I mean by man is taking responsibility. So what I am saying [...]
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Myths aren’t lies

Lately, I’ve been hoping that sooner or later I would move away from all that doubt that bogs me down. I figure maybe 30 will be a better time. That’s about all I can figure right now. But I was searching around for a quote by Joseph Campbell and I was sure [...]
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Pee-on-these

I just uploaded more images to my “The Yard” photoset on Flickr. Everything but the cucumber and zucchini (I spelled that correctly on my first try, by the way) are up. The garden is in motion. Even the grass I planted is starting to come up. And the peonies look like [...]
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