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Michael Wray April 11, 2026 |
THE END GAME
“It i̇s hard to see how trump would’ve acted any differently i̇f he were a Russi̇an asset than how he has acted i̇n the fi̇rst 100 days of hi̇s second term.” – Ivo Dalder, former ambassador to Nato under President Barrack Obama This blog examines Trump and the…
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Michael Wray April 5, 2026 |
THE SECRET LIVES OF THINGS (3) SILIVRI
“Every encounter between a person and an object contains a story” – From the Netflix series, The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Beginnings Several years ago, I began a series of blogs about some of the artworks that adorn my home. I shared the stories behind the pieces, what they mean to me, and what…
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Michael Wray February 22, 2026 |
Where Night Met Day
(This blog is another excerpt from my dream diary, which I introduced in my previous blog, (Zombies!! 06/07/25). I dreamed that I was in Turkey and I got a phone call from an old friend named Peter Parich, whom I haven’t seen since gr. 10, when he moved to Chicago. He told me to go to the window,…
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Michael Wray July 6, 2025 |
Zombies!!!
Hi, it’s been a while but I’ll get into that later. Let’s just say that I’ve had an elephant sized case of writer’s block. I have lots of new blogs planned but in the meantime, I’d like to share a few stories – well, dreams actually, that I wrote in a dream diary I kept during the first…
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Michael Wray April 28, 2024 |
A Meditation Under Gray Skies
MY FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE One of my favorite places to be is at our summer flat in Silivri, about 60 kms outside of İstanbül, where I like to escape to on weekends during the off season to take a break from the constant demands of life in the city. Besides the fact that this small holiday village is…
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Michael Wray February 17, 2024 |
The Fire Next Time
Broken sky, torn blue. No hail of comets but the dinosaurs shall fall again. You and I, friend, shall fall. Again the world shall shake and heave, the sea all stained and muddy will cast up its dead and the once seamless firmament will tear its stitches. Uproot the trees and rend the Earth yet nature…
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Michael Wray November 13, 2023 |
The Dangers of Binary Thinking
The Death Of Nuance Of all the many memes that are circulating in response to the war in Gaza today, one of them that caught my greatest attention was the following: Yet it seems that there is no longer room for equivocation in today’s world of black and white responses to religious, social, moral, or political issues. You’re…
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Michael Wray September 19, 2023 |
A PERFECT TURKISH MOMENT
WHY TURKEY? Whenever I visit my homeland, Canada, I inevitably get asked what’s so special about Turkey that I was willing to leave my family and friends and a country that ranks 14th on the list of happiest countries in the world. I explain the great appeal for me of living in a country with such an incredibly…
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Michael Wray July 26, 2023 |
Flat Earth
Thank God the world’s not flat and past mistakes can sink far away behind the curve of the Earth. Cities fall away and are replaced by countryside. Skyscrapers and smokestacks give way to trees and rolling green hills. Imagine a flat Earth Where everything forms the backdrop to everything else. Where the Manhattan skyline is silhouetted against the…
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Michael Wray June 9, 2023 |
The Poisoned Chalice
There was once a kingdom divided upon itself, where two dukes sought a coveted chalice. This chalice, said to possess magical powers, was believed to be the key to uniting their land and bringing prosperity and respect to their people. Little did they know that the chalice held a dark secret: the poison of insurmountable problems that could…