by Bradley Tucker — Each dawn signals a new day Another chance to dream, ruminate and play Every day we are made anew But work and drudgery distort our view We fill our heads with boundless disdain As if we were the makers of our pain and gain Surrender to the currents of the stream And you will find…

by Bradley Tucker — The gazelle gazed out across the Savannah. Two long, dark horns stood atop its head in warning. Its ever-watchful eyes darted once more across the endless plains of grass before lowering its head to drink the floodwater. …

Most people enjoy going out for a walk in the countryside to get a breath of fresh air and take in the scenery, but some hiking enthusiasts (fundamentalists) try to make this their living reality for months on end as they dive deeper into nature and themselves. Multi-day, well-marked paths…

We waste away our time with wasteful consumption and ungrateful living A wasteful world divided by waste and torn apart by it Crumbling empires and lost civilizations litter the Earth Decaying wasted centres of ancient humanity Leaving only the scattered remnants of unfulfilled potential in their wake An unnerving snapshot…

You fight what is Because you come from what is not Your gaze has been forced upon the future And your mind, like a crystal ball Is filled with possibilities Yet, you have forgotten where you are When you look ahead You see yourself lacking This is only natural You have been raised in fear To fight and…

It has been a gruelling second week of the bootcamp. On top of the Ruby basics that we churned through last week, which included Flow, Conditionals and Arrays, Iterators and Blocks, and Hash and Symbols, we also had to contend with Regular Expressions, Parsing, Classes and Instances, and Inheritance and…

Periods of ecstatic bliss Impart a nostalgic thought That you have been here before Recurring patterns of struggle A fixed goal in sight A point of your desiring It lies far from here Or over that next hill Redirecting your focus, you climb The slope steepens as you ascend Your feet…