Opinions and Thoughts of LightHouse Dann Verner - Just as he is!

As I sit here on this sunny Sunday gazing out at my beloved Scarborough – that East Side slab of the Greater Toronto Area, I ponder.  The GTA is famous for having as many trees as people.  Below is a few pictures of the average view from any point in this marvelous city within a city. As you can see, it’s a concrete jungle with a  green laced frock. People  forget to look around at times.  Walking their paths with their mind on their money and money on their mind.  Heads forcibly bent down waiting for the next electronic message. Blinded by the hustle and bustle of modern day survival.  Prisoners of busy lifestyle and the constant worry of “How will I make it till cheque day”. This saddens me.  I am a victim, also. Many days I sit on the balcony oblivious to the trees, the birds and even the squirrels dancing to and fro. Do the others hear the constant wail of sirens? I do. Each one bothers me as I am prejudiced into ...

NAME IS DANN AND I AM AFRAID. I am afraid of what my once beautiful and peaceful country has become.  ​So Federal Motion M103 passed on a vote of 201 for and a mere 91 against. (SHARIA creeping law). Despite many of my countrymen saying "No way!", the Liberal majority, with the help of the good old unionists NDP and the rainbow unicorn riding idiots from the "green" party managed to vote it in. Say good bye to free speech and say hello to millions of taxpayers dollars being wasted in numerous Supreme Court hearings as people charged challenge their Rights and Freedoms.  The same Charter of Rights and Freedoms that Pierre Elliott Trudeau fought so hard to get for us, his fellow Canadians.  Now,  his undercover Muslim, pothead,  spoon fed undiagnosed schizophrenic CHILD is destroying.   But, yet, you all will sit in Tim Horton's and on Facebook and bitch and bitch.  But, y'all won't stand together on Parliament Hill and say "STOP AND STEP ...

So, touchy subject, 'SUICIDE' - I do believe you all may have heard of this quirky little characteristic you humans have. This evening, after a few accidental shots of good old old Wray & Nephew combined with the cancer meds, my lust for kush weed and the newly acquired pneumonia meds. (Yes folks on top of everything else I now have pneumonia - I had a different one in the sixties behind the high school - she spelt her name"Knew Moanforya - just saying) Ok, come on here - damn - suicide is a serious thing!!!!!! ' I know this as fact - I actually did kill myself before and was brought back by two burly EMS angels and a divine misconception or maybe intervention.'    You can read briefly about it in my previously published : "I COMMITTED SUICIDE ONCE" http://dannverner.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-committed-suicide-once.html?spref=bl Now, what brought me to sit and dance on these keys this fine evening was a...

I am a connoisseur of real music. I am 58 years old and many are surprised at the genre of music I listen to. I do listen to all era's of music, but my everyday is who I speak of in this 'Walk With Dann'. By 'real', I mean music in which there is lyrics that actually convey a message or story.  Do not see much of that nowadays in this 'so-called' hip hop/rap genre.  A song is meant to convey a message or enlighten one's  inner soul. Musician's were and are "minstrels".  Minstrel defined by the dictionary as, " singer who performed songs whose lyrics told stories of different places or of existing or imaginary events.   Although minstrels told their own tales, often they would memorize and embellish the works of others ". Who are the top few I consider minstrels?  Here are a few that I have mad respect for what they are speaking to the youth of today. Ill Bill and his brother Necro Vinnie Paz Yelaw...

"Been a long time since I left adolescence" It seemed like a marvellous plan at the time, me leaving home to become a roaming long haired leaping gnome. The Elders tried to warn me of what lay ahead on the path called life. I never did listen well. I would walk many a charmed path and I most definitely crawled through many a briar ridden uphill struggle to reach a life lesson. I have no regrets, but the ones I am tormented by. The darkness within for the many wrongs I mastered. I can only suffer in my own guilt till such a time as I face The Judgement and plead my case. Living my most memorable years from the late sixties till present day, I have Blessed my soul with meeting over ten thousand souls - visited many places and if Jimi Hendrix was to sing to me, "Have YOU ever been experienced?" I would reply "Yes, yes I have." I began dabbling in drug culture at the ripe age of ten. Shocking as it sounds, truth so it is. Times were changing then. Co...

Here is a little Facebook status that I just had to re-post because it needed to be said. I am not homophobic - I am simply stating that an International or, actually, any sporting or entertainment venue is not the place nor the time to do such things. Stealing the spotlight does not do well for striking your mark................ Quote: "When did the Olympics become a sexual thing? I refuse to watch them because I am SO SO sick hearing about the rainbow shit. Where are the heterosexual flags OR BETTER YET - LET'S MAKE SPORTS ABOUT SPORT AND NOT WHO IS SCREWING WHO. SO SICK OF THIS PRIDE SHIT, GETS OLD AFTER A WHILE. FIRST CANADA DAY, NOW THE OLYMPICS. THERE IS A TIME AND PLACE FOR EVERYTHING. WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A STRAIGHT PRIDE DAY! NOW WHOEVER WANTS CAN GET AS MAD AS THEY WANT, BUT I AM SICK OF IT TAKING OVER ALL SOCIAL AND SPORT MEDIUMS." "no offence meant for any body - my beef is where and how they are doing it. It steals the spotlight from the games t...

Sad state of affairs for society when you have a man in China stabbing twenty plus children and an idiot in the U.S. shooting kids. THERE IS NO REASON IN OUR MODERN SOCIETY FOR ANYONE TO OWN A GUN!!! (with the exception of very remote areas where hunting is necessary to survive) There should be a mandatory life sentence just for carrying one. Now, everyone can get mad at me all they want, but I speak from past mistakes. Thirty years ago I carried and used one and I did my time, but in all reality I should have done a lot more time then what I was given. If you carry one eventually you will use it and it is always an innocent person who gets hurt. It is amazing how the killers family always say, "He was such a loving family guy." Sure, towards his own family, but not an ounce of passion for the victims of his actions. It is time we brought faith back into the schools and educate our youth on compassion for fellow man, consequences for their actions and most of all R...

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So, May is about to end and we shall begin the journey into June with all it's fine weather and the Light of a summer sun. May was rough this year. The tragic death of a close and dear friend, Sheena Eve (missing you dearly) added to the emotions that I have been wracked with these past few months. The incompetency of the government in the way they deal with monetary issues - funny how if you happen to owe them money you must pay right away, BUT if they owe you, "The cheque is in the mail". The Creators took our Sheena . I overstand why. A few times in your life you will be Blessed with intertwining your path with that of certain unique and truly precious souls. Sheena was/is such. Never from her mouth would you hear an argument or unfounded bad word. Her aura was violet, her eyes were peace, tranquility and joy. When she walked into a darkened room, the Light would follow - she was a "Sparkle Bitch" ( a term she used herself). Her physical self has left...

(Re-post - original posting March 2008 dannverner.spaces.live) I woke Up And Realized It Was Confession Time......... Interesting thought...... In my 38 years living on my own in the deepest roots of the darkest part of society and then later in years living in the deepest roots of being rich and "Joe Citizen", then returning to become a meager man, "Just Dann", I have discovered a few things that have been constant throughout all ages - some people are good, some evil and some are agitators in the machine. The reason our youth are like they are is the learned behaviorism from us adults. Our media, our ways and our quest to hide behind intoxicants and drugs so that we do not see the reality we have created. Our constant and very much genetic habit of "finding a reason to misplace blame", our reluctance to readily admit, "I fucked up". There is quite a difference in allowing one's self to want to save society and people as a whole and trying t...

There are numerous avenues and ways in which to offer up thanks and gratitudes for Blessings that Be. Which one of these is best sincere to show such? I know not, therefore I merely go with my instinctive inner voice. "I offer my gratitude to The Creators for the life I have been given in this multiverse and space/time continuum. I am humbled by their gifts of trials, tribulations, conflicts and woes. For without these I would not be aware of the true gifts of success, overstanding, resolution and joy." In my adolescent "Walk with Dann" I have seen, accomplished and experienced far more then most men. I have witnessed violence, I have experienced violence and I have been victimized by violence. In my senior "Walk" I have witnessed peace, experienced the 'turning of the other cheek' and held my hand out to the victim. Life is like the Spirit of the Ocean. She can be a mighty mean 'Whore' or a calming 'Lady'. It all depends on how and...

Hey, Jah, it is I and I again speaking to you and to ask that you allow for these humans to rectify what they have done to the gift you have so graciously bestowed upon them. I and I apologize for that which they have so damaged in their selfishness and immaturity. Forgive them - for they know not what they have done. In all the overstanding wisdom you have enabled mankind to have at their hand, they neglected to overstand the words of your way. Their societal mind farts fogged their visions of the beauty of their existence on this plain and their prescience in this multi-verse. It's me again, Jah, as I fall on my knees today, asking (on their behalf) for a second chance. Allow for the beacon of my Light to allow their eyes to envision YOUR Light. Allow for the many who are part of I and I to lead these naive lambs to the path of wisdom. Let our fold allow them the teachings and wisdom you have blessed upon I and I. For mine eyes have no enemies within mine heart and I and I shall...