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    The Unintended Consequences Of
    The Unintended Consequences Of
    The Unintended Consequences Of
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    The Unintended Consequences Of

    By Shane Genziuk

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    What do dinosaurs have in common with military history? Can gardeners with rounded bellies really stop to smell the roses? And are Jeff Lynne and John Keegan just facets from the same brilliant crystal, crafted by a long lost super being?

    These are just twelve of the questions that will also remain partially unanswered from reading this new and exciting journey of self-actualization.

    Here, Shane Genziuk delivers an absorbing yet refreshingly unique anthology of poems (haiku & freestyle), quotes, and illustrations, which chart his own unintended consequences from 2010 to 2013.

    If you have ever striven to understand your place in the world, you might find some of it here, shared in a most welcoming place.

    Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of the author is in discretely lifting humour's shield, to share with you an emotionally raw sense of loss.

    There is trust implicit in expressing those vulnerabilities, exposed as they are, and to you the reader, in becoming so much more.

    "My words are many textures / that show how it feels / to run your hands over my heart / into this life"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShane Genziuk
    Release dateJul 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301766864
    The Unintended Consequences Of
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    Shane Genziuk

    Shane Genziuk is corporate people leader, living environmentalist and blogger, and founder of Ground to Ground.

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      The Unintended Consequences Of - Shane Genziuk

      Foreword

      Writing this book has been a long time coming. It all started as a private collection of poems and short stories appearing on my blog - Groundtoground.org, which found a loyal audience, one day to emerge as this, my first body of published work.

      This collection holds a choice of stories between the years 2010 to 2013 - some 40 odd poems of various forms, favourite quotes, and a proverb.

      So how does a big bellied kid with an addiction to diet coke and computer games turn to gardening (not easy with a big gut, that didn't change), and poetry? Que the flash back music...

      Let's start with Haiku. One of the first things I ever wrote was a Haiku poem back in high school. From memory it was published in the school year book (was it any good we can't be sure - hey it was like in the 80's). In an age when humanity has bubble wrapped the planet in smog, concrete and steel, Haiku represents complex simplicity, short, deep, quiet, calm, and mellow reason. It is reality captured on a few line, easy to write, hard to write

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