so one thing that I feel like I used to
avoid a little bit and we’ve heard a lot
about it today is change I didn’t really
I didn’t expect I didn’t like change I
guess I’ve come around
change is good it’s inevitable
impermanence is a thing so this this is
about that this poem is about that it
was the best poem I’d ever written but I
didn’t actually write it down I’d love
to recite it but now it is what it is
somewhere much more enlightened I
learned a meditation technique it’s a
valuable practice to assist with the
practice of living participants must
remain of the program discipline for 10
days it’s very difficult in many ways
one of the requirements is absolute
silence at its finest
there’s no interacting there’s no
reading no writing no pens no paper no
reciting poetry no mantras no prayers on
day one I did Tai Chi in my head I got
fed up with the mind Banner discouraged
from this painful practices the mind
only continued to race faster filled
with excitement but mostly dread for
these 10 days ahead I did all 108 moves
of Tai Chi but only in my head on day 3
I was back in grade 3 and I could feel
the heat of my grade 3 girlfriend on my
lips I remembered she had a high fever I
really wanted to kiss her she told me
not to in a playful kind of whisper she
didn’t want to get me sick well we
kissed anyways I did get sick but it was
totally worth it I’m Dave 4 I learned
that I was there to be still but I was
scared to be still and I learned to be
still begin this long process of a
mental refill top up the gas tank of the
mind observed the rickety wheels of his
human being hubcaps are hanging on for
dear life as I Coast over this rocky
Traverse I learned how to observe my
breath with patience with respect the
sound the sensation the ripples of time
across the upper lip I felt lighter
during a rest period walk eyes closed
that try to decipher the babbling Creek
in the two-lane road that passed by
there with all that silence that
two-lane road was a busy 6 Lane that
Creek babble on like a rollercoaster but
it was therapy
it listen better than any partner I’ve
ever known it showed more patience than
I give myself it continued to change and
to move and it moved and it moved and it
moved me I started writing poetry in
mind the sound of the Bell that someone
does two group meditations became as
soothing as my dad’s voice singing Noomi
Noomi tiny ton Shelley and my mother
telling me everything’s okay when I woke
up from that weird nightmare when I fell
off a chairlift but now safe come back
to sleep I no longer held a grudge
against the grade school bullies forgave
my brothers for picking on me I felt
compassion for my angry co-worker I felt
for him and the irritability and I sent
him well wishing’s of equanimity but if
a positive meditation taught me one
thing at all its impermanence because
the next thing I knew I resented
everything that bell that someone s to
group meditation shoved with force it
was an 18-wheeler encroaching on my
heels driving just faster than appeals
demanding my intention with intention
but I resisted how it feels the mind
wanders the mind wanders slowly until it
picks up the pace now it’s pacing now
it’s racing now I’m occupied preoccupied
with racing and I’m getting tired note
it slow it down and rest by observing
the body observing the breath on day one
I was to be there for ten days it felt
like forever it felt like today here
with you would never come on day 11 I
went home I sat down I tried to write I
tried to remember that one beautiful
poem that I wrote in my mind but it was
gone
well I remain grateful of what moves
through my life and I move on
thank you I was all excited about like
bantering a little bit in between so so
this next one that the banter that I
prepared this is about I guess that
that’s about like personal change a
little bit more this one is more about
collective collective change you know
we’ve seen some really cool things some
research that people have done in the
past year five years you know recapping
things that happened centuries ago as a
society everything is always changing
I’m really curious to see what’s going
to be on this stage next year but this
is kind of about that the change and
going with the change as well the earth
used to be flat contrary though to
popular belief they’re well aware that
the Santa Maria and its crew were in no
danger of sailing over and off the edge
of the earth in 1492 and yet for some
the earth being a sphere was a
contentious issue we spoke in a language
of flat angle vectors horizontal
directions and falsified victories and
we thought we knew what we were doing we
were committed to the truth that was not
the facts that were and although
contention persisted for many years
people came to terms that the earth was
no longer flat it became a simple matter
of fact and our language changed forever
this could be a poem about colonialism
about conquest and domination and untold
history and in some ways it is about
occupying space and and sound and the
comforts of home this is about
oppressive language and behavior about
unsafe space and oppressive nature the
first time I heard a dirty joke I
laughed I laughed at the absurd like
someone had just told me the earth is a
giant ball spinning in space hilarious
like the only thing I had ever known for
certain was the edge of Terra and like
spherical geometry didn’t teach the
shadow using sunrise sunset and yet
something about that joke waked my Flat
Earth vision into oblivion disrespectful
and disgusting then not discussed just
confused and a collective acceptance
sexist nonsense and racist and
bad punchlines leave a bad taste in my
mouth
ignorance lingers like a bad smell I try
not to judge but some people seem to
have had bad body odor for years I can
still smell my own from years ago and
for some reason seemed as though no one
ever said anything in opposition people
said so many 2-dimensional things with
no question and doctrine ation flat
words and bad form and ignorance
accepted as viable methods of navigation
but at least it seems people have
stopped ignoring science saying less
nonsense while reflecting and digesting
the historical context of certain
commonplace concepts constructs and
terms many with long forgotten origins
derogatory everyday vocabulary
derogatory vocabulary every day you’ve
all heard it before I won’t repeat any
of that nonsense on this stage never
repeat any of that nonsense but one
thing that has become quite exhausting
is this argument that people are
becoming too sensitive
so now others are feeling censorship
that there’s a heavier prevalence of
being offended which leads to much more
defensiveness well guess what being
sensitive is not the problem shutting
people up and shutting people down and
shutting people out is the problem being
sensitive is not the problem oppression
is the truth used to be that the earth
was flat it was accepted it was never
corrected and it was fact but then the
globe was discovered and our language
changed accordingly well it’s not that
people are becoming too sensitive it’s
like the earth is no longer flat but
yeah this is fun I’m having fun thank
you this this poem is I guess it seems
on the surface it’s about being happy
about trying to be happy right now I’m
gonna moreso use it as about being
honest if you’re feeling something
inside you know you don’t necessarily
have to hold it back vulnerability is a
good thing this poem also like like puts
me in a good mood so I feel like a
little selfish because I want to do it
because it makes me feel good I recently
said said goodbye to my 14 year old
husky a week and a half ago and and it’s
been you know it’s been a sad a few
weeks I miss him very much but but this
this poem it brings happiness so I’m
since I was a kid my father would draw
hearts he would start by telling me son
this is no ordinary heart this heart is
your heart it’s him he was trying to
impart some wisdom he continued by
saying the heart is special you should
listen the heart is a muscle it pumps
healthy blood around the body it beats
it maintains the body and it’s very very
strong now this heart but I’m drawing on
this piece of paper represents your
heart now the heart should begin like
most drawn hearts with part of a
yin-yang on one side followed by another
opposing piece that’s where most drawn
hearts cease as for the hearts my father
would draw the one representing my own
he put eyes and a nose and like the
final piece of a puzzle a beautiful
smile would be added he was trying to
cultivate something like farmers do but
growing awareness of what the heart can
do my father would tell me that the
heart is a muscle and at the heart can
smile and I can see it I’ve seen it I
can see it when you smile I mean when
you really smile I could see your whole
heart smile the smile may end on the
curl of your lips on the upturned ends
of your mouth but your smile begins
within and maybe a bit further south
when it comes out in full force once
it’s fully risen within like the sunrise
it’s so bright there’s no confusion with
damn the smile brims to the surface it
bubbles it boils like a kettle that’s
been signaling steam for a while but
before the kettle can sing the source
must get hot and when it’s hot your eyes
are two marbles caught on the Rays of a
sunny day when you smile frequently your
frequency resonates at another level
your smile adds decency to this world
and makes it better so let it out with
no embarrassment because it ignites the
air around you like you are some kind of
science experiment it’s bright like
flash paper but it doesn’t dissipate as
quickly the sight helps to mitigate any
sickness it gives benefit it’s healthy
your heart smells like fireworks it’s
bright mesmerizing colorful it comes out
and bursts it can be loud
you should be proud so your heart should
smile as much as it can sometimes it
can’t and when it can’t allow the
residual sunshine from that previous
sunrise allow the reflection off the
moon to be a reminder to you that
somewhere the Sun is still shining so
don’t be upset if you haven’t smiled
lately my friends you’ve smiled before
and you will smile again don’t force it
take your time revel in stress it’s okay
not to feel the heat sometimes you could
put that kettle to rest but know that
when you live with a smile in your heart
you can create fine art you can connect
and unite and tear down walls of
segregation lead protests and be one
person demonstrations so don’t hold it
back I I just asked you not to keep it
down if your heart feels like smiling
don’t just let it be a frown that’s
turned upside down no wear that smile
like a crown like it’s been bestowed on
you by the powers that be as if you were
knighted by a grin now your smile is
royalty owned it like the jewel that it
is since I was a kid my father would
draw hearts he would start by telling me
son this is no ordinary heart this heart
is your heart and if
or heart wants to smile please do me a
favor drawing it it’s a good place to
start and sometimes it may feel safer
but if your heart is really smiling
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
yeah I’m gonna do one more I’m gonna do
one more thing for you once again thank
you so much this is an honor all the
speakers all the organizers Gabe one
more time gentlemen
I’m gonna do a song lovely lovely day
[Music]
nice vibe it’s a while just how time
flies
high-fives around a campfire nine lives
like a cat on a wire don’t conceal any
white lies no wheels so a bike ride its
sunshine to the nightlife yeah this is
how we’re spreading the fingers in the
[Music]
yeah he is right here to stay make a
face like it’s a beautiful day only blue
though she were feelings of gray all the
new moon for teaching though hate when
confused euro for to for overly
distinct values and attitudes that
expose the mistakes these rounds are on
to the shades than our openness take
leave you with something new time second
focus the peas pesticides for the
Lincoln’s a place I got some squabbles
today their self and different ways and
to each their own
yeah this is how we’re spreading the
start by singing that word when you’re
ready to leave to the people better
right here all the people sticking tight
here all those people just place your
fears all my friends and all mothers out
Rebecca Genesis some onion down my
nemesis I’m letting it go but I for the
bathroom holding it back them
representing is a killing false faction
cleverness a weights been lifted off now
that I’m soft and I’ve been better ever
since end up together in this having fun
and taking risks no though you’re
feeling bad attack you think it better
it’s better than churning in
silence and Sophie when you’re feeling
down right on the ground get up again
with no regression respective stay in
check when you’re faced by death better
days our next team the stress life is on
even after atom bombs remnants is remain
standing strong people batter right here
all the people thinking take here all
the people despite your fears all my
friends and all my peers out of sight and all those here we are
avoid a little bit and we’ve heard a lot
about it today is change I didn’t really
I didn’t expect I didn’t like change I
guess I’ve come around
change is good it’s inevitable
impermanence is a thing so this this is
about that this poem is about that it
was the best poem I’d ever written but I
didn’t actually write it down I’d love
to recite it but now it is what it is
somewhere much more enlightened I
learned a meditation technique it’s a
valuable practice to assist with the
practice of living participants must
remain of the program discipline for 10
days it’s very difficult in many ways
one of the requirements is absolute
silence at its finest
there’s no interacting there’s no
reading no writing no pens no paper no
reciting poetry no mantras no prayers on
day one I did Tai Chi in my head I got
fed up with the mind Banner discouraged
from this painful practices the mind
only continued to race faster filled
with excitement but mostly dread for
these 10 days ahead I did all 108 moves
of Tai Chi but only in my head on day 3
I was back in grade 3 and I could feel
the heat of my grade 3 girlfriend on my
lips I remembered she had a high fever I
really wanted to kiss her she told me
not to in a playful kind of whisper she
didn’t want to get me sick well we
kissed anyways I did get sick but it was
totally worth it I’m Dave 4 I learned
that I was there to be still but I was
scared to be still and I learned to be
still begin this long process of a
mental refill top up the gas tank of the
mind observed the rickety wheels of his
human being hubcaps are hanging on for
dear life as I Coast over this rocky
Traverse I learned how to observe my
breath with patience with respect the
sound the sensation the ripples of time
across the upper lip I felt lighter
during a rest period walk eyes closed
that try to decipher the babbling Creek
in the two-lane road that passed by
there with all that silence that
two-lane road was a busy 6 Lane that
Creek babble on like a rollercoaster but
it was therapy
it listen better than any partner I’ve
ever known it showed more patience than
I give myself it continued to change and
to move and it moved and it moved and it
moved me I started writing poetry in
mind the sound of the Bell that someone
does two group meditations became as
soothing as my dad’s voice singing Noomi
Noomi tiny ton Shelley and my mother
telling me everything’s okay when I woke
up from that weird nightmare when I fell
off a chairlift but now safe come back
to sleep I no longer held a grudge
against the grade school bullies forgave
my brothers for picking on me I felt
compassion for my angry co-worker I felt
for him and the irritability and I sent
him well wishing’s of equanimity but if
a positive meditation taught me one
thing at all its impermanence because
the next thing I knew I resented
everything that bell that someone s to
group meditation shoved with force it
was an 18-wheeler encroaching on my
heels driving just faster than appeals
demanding my intention with intention
but I resisted how it feels the mind
wanders the mind wanders slowly until it
picks up the pace now it’s pacing now
it’s racing now I’m occupied preoccupied
with racing and I’m getting tired note
it slow it down and rest by observing
the body observing the breath on day one
I was to be there for ten days it felt
like forever it felt like today here
with you would never come on day 11 I
went home I sat down I tried to write I
tried to remember that one beautiful
poem that I wrote in my mind but it was
gone
well I remain grateful of what moves
through my life and I move on
thank you I was all excited about like
bantering a little bit in between so so
this next one that the banter that I
prepared this is about I guess that
that’s about like personal change a
little bit more this one is more about
collective collective change you know
we’ve seen some really cool things some
research that people have done in the
past year five years you know recapping
things that happened centuries ago as a
society everything is always changing
I’m really curious to see what’s going
to be on this stage next year but this
is kind of about that the change and
going with the change as well the earth
used to be flat contrary though to
popular belief they’re well aware that
the Santa Maria and its crew were in no
danger of sailing over and off the edge
of the earth in 1492 and yet for some
the earth being a sphere was a
contentious issue we spoke in a language
of flat angle vectors horizontal
directions and falsified victories and
we thought we knew what we were doing we
were committed to the truth that was not
the facts that were and although
contention persisted for many years
people came to terms that the earth was
no longer flat it became a simple matter
of fact and our language changed forever
this could be a poem about colonialism
about conquest and domination and untold
history and in some ways it is about
occupying space and and sound and the
comforts of home this is about
oppressive language and behavior about
unsafe space and oppressive nature the
first time I heard a dirty joke I
laughed I laughed at the absurd like
someone had just told me the earth is a
giant ball spinning in space hilarious
like the only thing I had ever known for
certain was the edge of Terra and like
spherical geometry didn’t teach the
shadow using sunrise sunset and yet
something about that joke waked my Flat
Earth vision into oblivion disrespectful
and disgusting then not discussed just
confused and a collective acceptance
sexist nonsense and racist and
bad punchlines leave a bad taste in my
mouth
ignorance lingers like a bad smell I try
not to judge but some people seem to
have had bad body odor for years I can
still smell my own from years ago and
for some reason seemed as though no one
ever said anything in opposition people
said so many 2-dimensional things with
no question and doctrine ation flat
words and bad form and ignorance
accepted as viable methods of navigation
but at least it seems people have
stopped ignoring science saying less
nonsense while reflecting and digesting
the historical context of certain
commonplace concepts constructs and
terms many with long forgotten origins
derogatory everyday vocabulary
derogatory vocabulary every day you’ve
all heard it before I won’t repeat any
of that nonsense on this stage never
repeat any of that nonsense but one
thing that has become quite exhausting
is this argument that people are
becoming too sensitive
so now others are feeling censorship
that there’s a heavier prevalence of
being offended which leads to much more
defensiveness well guess what being
sensitive is not the problem shutting
people up and shutting people down and
shutting people out is the problem being
sensitive is not the problem oppression
is the truth used to be that the earth
was flat it was accepted it was never
corrected and it was fact but then the
globe was discovered and our language
changed accordingly well it’s not that
people are becoming too sensitive it’s
like the earth is no longer flat but
yeah this is fun I’m having fun thank
you this this poem is I guess it seems
on the surface it’s about being happy
about trying to be happy right now I’m
gonna moreso use it as about being
honest if you’re feeling something
inside you know you don’t necessarily
have to hold it back vulnerability is a
good thing this poem also like like puts
me in a good mood so I feel like a
little selfish because I want to do it
because it makes me feel good I recently
said said goodbye to my 14 year old
husky a week and a half ago and and it’s
been you know it’s been a sad a few
weeks I miss him very much but but this
this poem it brings happiness so I’m
since I was a kid my father would draw
hearts he would start by telling me son
this is no ordinary heart this heart is
your heart it’s him he was trying to
impart some wisdom he continued by
saying the heart is special you should
listen the heart is a muscle it pumps
healthy blood around the body it beats
it maintains the body and it’s very very
strong now this heart but I’m drawing on
this piece of paper represents your
heart now the heart should begin like
most drawn hearts with part of a
yin-yang on one side followed by another
opposing piece that’s where most drawn
hearts cease as for the hearts my father
would draw the one representing my own
he put eyes and a nose and like the
final piece of a puzzle a beautiful
smile would be added he was trying to
cultivate something like farmers do but
growing awareness of what the heart can
do my father would tell me that the
heart is a muscle and at the heart can
smile and I can see it I’ve seen it I
can see it when you smile I mean when
you really smile I could see your whole
heart smile the smile may end on the
curl of your lips on the upturned ends
of your mouth but your smile begins
within and maybe a bit further south
when it comes out in full force once
it’s fully risen within like the sunrise
it’s so bright there’s no confusion with
damn the smile brims to the surface it
bubbles it boils like a kettle that’s
been signaling steam for a while but
before the kettle can sing the source
must get hot and when it’s hot your eyes
are two marbles caught on the Rays of a
sunny day when you smile frequently your
frequency resonates at another level
your smile adds decency to this world
and makes it better so let it out with
no embarrassment because it ignites the
air around you like you are some kind of
science experiment it’s bright like
flash paper but it doesn’t dissipate as
quickly the sight helps to mitigate any
sickness it gives benefit it’s healthy
your heart smells like fireworks it’s
bright mesmerizing colorful it comes out
and bursts it can be loud
you should be proud so your heart should
smile as much as it can sometimes it
can’t and when it can’t allow the
residual sunshine from that previous
sunrise allow the reflection off the
moon to be a reminder to you that
somewhere the Sun is still shining so
don’t be upset if you haven’t smiled
lately my friends you’ve smiled before
and you will smile again don’t force it
take your time revel in stress it’s okay
not to feel the heat sometimes you could
put that kettle to rest but know that
when you live with a smile in your heart
you can create fine art you can connect
and unite and tear down walls of
segregation lead protests and be one
person demonstrations so don’t hold it
back I I just asked you not to keep it
down if your heart feels like smiling
don’t just let it be a frown that’s
turned upside down no wear that smile
like a crown like it’s been bestowed on
you by the powers that be as if you were
knighted by a grin now your smile is
royalty owned it like the jewel that it
is since I was a kid my father would
draw hearts he would start by telling me
son this is no ordinary heart this heart
is your heart and if
or heart wants to smile please do me a
favor drawing it it’s a good place to
start and sometimes it may feel safer
but if your heart is really smiling
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
yeah I’m gonna do one more I’m gonna do
one more thing for you once again thank
you so much this is an honor all the
speakers all the organizers Gabe one
more time gentlemen
I’m gonna do a song lovely lovely day
[Music]
nice vibe it’s a while just how time
flies
high-fives around a campfire nine lives
like a cat on a wire don’t conceal any
white lies no wheels so a bike ride its
sunshine to the nightlife yeah this is
how we’re spreading the fingers in the
[Music]
yeah he is right here to stay make a
face like it’s a beautiful day only blue
though she were feelings of gray all the
new moon for teaching though hate when
confused euro for to for overly
distinct values and attitudes that
expose the mistakes these rounds are on
to the shades than our openness take
leave you with something new time second
focus the peas pesticides for the
Lincoln’s a place I got some squabbles
today their self and different ways and
to each their own
yeah this is how we’re spreading the
start by singing that word when you’re
ready to leave to the people better
right here all the people sticking tight
here all those people just place your
fears all my friends and all mothers out
Rebecca Genesis some onion down my
nemesis I’m letting it go but I for the
bathroom holding it back them
representing is a killing false faction
cleverness a weights been lifted off now
that I’m soft and I’ve been better ever
since end up together in this having fun
and taking risks no though you’re
feeling bad attack you think it better
it’s better than churning in
silence and Sophie when you’re feeling
down right on the ground get up again
with no regression respective stay in
check when you’re faced by death better
days our next team the stress life is on
even after atom bombs remnants is remain
standing strong people batter right here
all the people thinking take here all
the people despite your fears all my
friends and all my peers out of sight and all those here we are
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