Suicide, middle age, and modern life

Heath Ledger’s passing seemed to re-ignite a wide interest in the causes, treatment, and perception of suicide. Emerging research in the U.S. suggest the interest is long overdue and tremendously misunderstood.
Ledger, it has been revealed, accidentally overdosed. Nonetheless, he sparked a discussion and highlighted the media and society’s obsession with youth suicide.
However, new [...]

Patrick Watson at the Grand

Even when the strings are cut, the music carries on in the plumbings of our hearts. — Patrick Watson
Patrick Watson, winner of Canada’s 2007 Polaris Prize, is fantastic.
I always knew that, of course, having fallen for his/their music rather quickly. (Still not clear if they’re a band or gentleman, being apparently, both).
Their winning of [...]