![]() It’s terribly deep and the cold is completeĪnd it only lacks your presence and nothing else The surface is green and the dark interweaves Gord’s work urged us to plunge in deeper than what the tour guide would suggest, to take roads less travelled and listen to voices seldom heard.Īll with the too-often lonely goal of creating community. But too often, most of us remain in the car, driving where we are told to go, experiencing what we are told to experience, expecting the expected, seeking out that which reinforces our biases instead of challenging them. ![]() We’re all given tools and opportunities with which we can learn, grow, understand - make the world a little bit better. We’re all given the ability to discern right from wrong to know what’s important and what is not. Gord worked that, lived it, on a higher level.Ī wise man once said “when the sunlight hits the olive oil don’t hesitate.” Gord spoke about art and truth and life and how they intertwine and how their pursuit gives one both perspective and purpose. As cynical as most are about journalists, that remains the reason why I, and so many of my peers, got into this business. The highest and best use of words is to connect, inspire and understand. About my ineffectual struggle at this moment to forge them into something that does justice to his gift. About my awe at the way Gord could sculpt them into constructions of great and terrible and at times indecipherable beauty. I awoke to a Canadian Press report, undoubtedly pre-prepared months ago, expected, but no less hard to read: Downie was gone.Ĭonventional journalism directs me to backfill here to recount his brave battle with inoperable brain cancer and the definitive Canadianness that defined his band. ![]() Sky blue with a bold “H” and “P” framing a silhouette of Gord Downie in an iconic pose standing in place of the “I.” I went to bed last night - unthinkingly - in my Tragically Hip T-shirt. The curtain climbs over me every morning I don’t know why I’m so immunized against reforming ![]()
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