Only $15, and full of e-karma.
Softcover version also available – $60

les nôtres – EBOOK by Kym Shumsky | Make Your Own Book

The 100 Strangers gallery show runs from April 29 to June 3rd at Irene’s Pub, 885 Bank Street.  The party is on May 9th, 7 – 9.  But you can purchase a book, e-book or print anytime.

I want to…

…come to the party.

…buy a book (softcover and e-book available).

…buy a print.

…hear more about this project.

…hear more about the cause.

…contact Kym.

Thanks, Ottawa.  You’re so rad.

I am not genetically inclined towards clefting, I just happen to be exceptional.  (This, I learned only recently.)  Premeditated or not (is that you, God, because not funny, man) cleft lip and palate is one of those things a rational adult could probably contextualize at a certain level, only that it happens to babies, who then grow up into adults who cannot rationalize it, because, man.  It totally sucked.

But here I am!  The better for it, etc. etc.  It is not uncommon that we, the privileged, cannot actually understand how pathetic we are in our own self-pity, but I am not so common, as you’ll recall.  Disaffected, wealth-like and totally into expensive shoes, mos def.  Unrepentant about it also.  But the second I lose touch of the honour and cosmic luck we enjoy for having been born here, now, I send myself straight back to Africa, India, Asia.  To the 95 percent beyond our borders who, in absence of bad luck, wouldn’t have any at all.

And that’s where these kids are.  Born, wailing and without upper lips.  Unable to suckle and therefore eat.  Without the handy coverall of wealth and health care, and the moral magnitude of rich, cold nations who merely pony up when something goes wrong, rather than turn away.  Or turn the victim away.  Or worse.

So that’s why.

Come to Irene’s on May 9th at 7:00.  And give me a hand helping those kids smile.

Do you miss this as much as I do?

Relive the thrill with an 8-minute interview I did on All in a Day.  I refuse to listen to it because I am a chicken.  But I hear it’s a very solid effort.

And sign up for the show!