Condition Other Than Normal: Finding Peace In a World Gone Mad

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Gary Tetterington. Condition Other Than Normal: Finding Peace In a World Gone Mad

Dedication

C.O.N

Dark Ride

Whitehorse – Briefly

Yellowknife – Basically

The Mine – Darkness and Despair

Stanton – The Party

A –Shaft -The Deed

Edmonton – A Brief Fear Before Quebec

Quebec – Quickly

Yellowknife – Again

Y.C.I. – The Wait

D.P. – Big House on the Prairie

Grierson – Interlude

D.P. – A Good Little Jail

Edmonton – Helpless

D.P. – Imagine

Annex – C.O.N

Coming Home – Reflections

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Betty Rose

So many times, when I have been frail and helpless, I would drop to my knees and cry out to God above for mercy. Just cut through the devouring fire on high and talk straight with the man Himself. Amen.

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All the tourists and trash like myself, hundreds of us, were drifting from one end of W.H. to the other and back again, moving aimlessly, trying to forget the burden of boredom and hoping for deliverance.

Resources were spread thin, practically non-existent, gutter butts were rare and invariably a satisfying delight when found. It was a slim – pickin’s and sparin’ situation. I had gone past hunger and was preparing to deal with a prodigious case of starvation. It was a grim setting and I felt like a phantom and I knew I was standing awful close to the dark lady and her kiss of death. It was a hardship but I would manage it. I had to manage it.

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