Singer-songwriter. Idealist. Global citizen. Email me at sam@samnabi.com.
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As Winter reluctantly hands control over to Spring, a city just about to bloom is frozen in time. Branches yearning for the sun are wrapped in a cocoon of ice. Even street signs get caught in the cold, glacial embrace. Buds, about to burst …
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I love cycling, especially in the City. I can hold my own in heavy traffic and stick to the rules of the road as best I can – I sure don’t need to give cars more reasons to be annoyed with cyclists. But inevitably, …
Read more →On a whim, I decided to go for a bike ride today. I left my wallet and phone behind and spent a couple hours on the Grand River Trail. It’s a great ride; I started at the Economical Insurance Trailway (point 13 on the …
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A new website has popped up, purporting to be an attempt by Shell Oil to win over public support for drilling in the arctic. They’ve apparently set up a make-your-own-postcard tool to encourage people to share the message of “Let’s Go”. I was duped …
Read more →For those who haven’t read it yet, my piece on the University of Waterloo International Development program is finally up on the Imprint website. It’s been out in paper format for a couple weeks now, but for those who haven’t been around campus, here …
Read more →I got a library card the other day. I’m part of something communal, something larger than myself. I borrowed a book. A fiction book. I haven’t read fiction in ages, haven’t lost myself in a good story since God knows when. Over the Christmas …
Read more →I like minimalism. There’s something liberating about paring life down to the essentials, shunning extraneous material goods, and taking pleasure in the simple life. Of course, the Waterloo co-op schedule makes it difficult to accumulate too much because I know I’m going to have …
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