Mi Leona de Mi Corazon

My life has always been a storm.

I have always persevered.

I have met joy and danced
with demons most feared.

My rocking horse was a motorcycle.

My playground
the streets.

Now I found love

I feel relief.

For in this heart

I’ll forever keep.

To know I have a hand to hold when comes time

to leave
this Earth so cold.

Her smile alone,
Was all I needed

To vow my love as my heart was seeded.

Six decades of Dark and Light
This joining feels so right.

Yes, I found love in a smile

One moment in time

One Angel’s glance

Forever my heart shall dance.

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Is The Loblaw’s Rebate Card A Scam?

Back on February 16, 2018 I saw on the evening news how Loblaws was offering a $25 rebate card for their part of the bread price fixing fiasco.

I had to have been one of the very first to apply. Mind you this was last February.

I waited patiently.

My neighbours were all receiving theirs.

Finally, after checking my blank “STATUS” over and over, I decided to inquire as to why it was taking so long.
Here is the first email ….sent May 16, 2018

I submitted my registration on 16/02/18

My ID number is:

WCB*******

I even updated my address when I moved.

I emailed before and was merely told it could take up to 12 weeks.

My question is why have I not received a card when all my Neighbors received their cards weeks ago, many who registered long after I had

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CAA – Loblaw Info		Thu, May 17, 12:03 PM
Dear Daniel, Thank you for your email. Your registration is processing. We will contact you if additional information is needed. You may continue to monitor your registration status at the following path: https://www.loblawcard.ca/en/status.

Sincerely,

Program Administrator

RM

This was sent June 20, 2018.

No card?

My registration was submitted on February 16, 2018

I have still not received my card.

My registration number is

WCB********

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your email. Your registration is processing. We will contact you if additional information is needed. You may continue to monitor your registration status at the following path: https://www.loblawcard.ca/en/status

Sincerely,

Program Administrator

[LS]

From: LightHouse Dann Verner <lighthousedannverner@gmail.com>

Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 5:52:11 AM
To:info@loblawcard.ca
Subject: No card?

My registration was submitted on February 16, 2018

I have still not received my card.

My registration number is

WCB*****

LightHouse Dann Verner <lighthousedannverner@gmail.com>	Wed, Jul 11, 3:50 PM
to LoblawInfo

I applied for this card the VERY first day you announced it on the news. I still have yet to receive it, but neighbors who applied on the last eligible day got theirs. Makes me wonder if it was a scam.

I wrote a few times and was told it takes three months.

THEN BY CHANCE I CHECK MY STATUS TODAY AND SEE A NOTE FOR ME TO UPLOAD PROOF OF WHO I AM AND WHERE I LIVE.

SO, I JUST SENT YOU A PHOTO OF MY GOVERNMENT DISABILITY CHEQUE STUB. HOPEFULLY, THAT IS SUFFICE. (I will also include a copy with this correspondence.)

However, I must say that I am offended that you would even possibly believe that a 61 year old disabled man would somehow be scamming you.

ESPECIALLY A MAN WHO HAS WAITED SIX AND A HALF MONTHS PATIENTLY – WELL, PATIENTLY TILL THE LAST MONTH OR SO.

A man who shops at your NoFrills at Saint Clair and Victoria Park Avenue, right next door to my building, daily for the past twenty or so years.

Talk about making someone feel like they are dishonest!!!! I had to have had to been one of the very first to register for the card. In fact I registered so early, I had to wait to submit the final registration because YOUR system was not set up yet.

I feel offended and somewhat a target for unknown reasons. ESPECIALLY AFTER ALL THE TIMES I EMAILED AND ASKED WHAT WAS WRONG.

I even contacted you when I moved because I feared the new tenant at my old residence may have sent it back or whatever.

I just do not understand how my neighbours were bragging about how fast they got theirs and here I have been waiting since late January or early February.

And ever time I inquired I was told it was being ‘processed’. For almost thirty weeks it has been processed.

If not for seeing my neighbours with the actual cards I would have definitely believed this was a scam.

I STILL HAVE MY DOUBTS AND WILL UNTIL I ACTUALLY RECEIVE A CARD. ALTHOUGH, I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED IF FOR SOME REASON YOU DENIED ME IT.

i AM OFFENDED THAT YOU WOULD BELIEVE A DISABLED SENIOR IS SOMEHOW SCAMMING YOU, YET, ALL MY YOUNG NEIGHBOURS AT BOTH MY OLD ADDRESS AND MY NEW ADDRESS GOT THEIRS AFTER REGISTERING MONTHS AFTER I HAD.

I forget when I actually applied. It was the very first day you released the information on CTV News. Your website says I registered February 16, 2018, but it was a couple of weeks before that.

I actually had to be one of the very first to have submitted a request. And for six months I have asked and wondered why.

If I had not gone to your website today to check (out of curiosity) I never would have known you wanted ‘PROOF” I was not a low life trying to scam you.

No sent me an email asking for the proof either. So, if I hadn’t checked today I never would have known you thought me a scammer.

I suspect Loblaw’s will find another reason to delay or deny me again.

I hope not, but why else would it take a senior a half year but working young people next door and across the hall got theirs very fastidiously.

Anyways, here is the attachment they asked for

Which, by the way, my current address is:

Daniel Verner

Dawes Road,

Toronto, Ontario

offendedly yours,

Daniel Verner

As you can see I was getting upset. I sent them the documents they asked for.

THEN THEY ASKED FOR THE SAME DOCUMENTS TWO MORE TIMES!!!

JULY 11, 2018 I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL …..

Dear DANIEL VERNER (Registration ID WCB******): The $25 Loblaw Card program was designed to pay customers quickly and directly, without requiring proof of purchase or forcing customers to wait for a class action lawsuit. Our plan to distribute tens of millions of dollars is a natural target for fraudulent behaviour by others. We are asking for your help to protect your interests and make sure that the money we want to pay you actually lands in your hands. We have received your registration and ask that you provide us information to confirm your identity – specifically and only your name and residential address. We ask that you please submit a scanned or photographed copy of any current documentation that shows your name and residential address. For example, a utility or cell phone bill will do. Please note that we do NOT need the account or customer numbers so you can cover up or remove the numbers in the copy of what you send us. You can submit a copy of your documents one of two ways: 1. Through the following secure link: http://www.loblawcard.ca/en/status. 2. By mail to Loblaw Card Program, P.O. Box 8111, Vancouver Main, Vancouver BC V6B 4E2. (Please do not send an original document). Submitted documents will be used only to confirm identity. Once received, they will be verified and destroyed. We require documentation within 30 days of the date of this email to complete your registration. After 30 days your registration will be rejected. If you have any questions, please contact us via email at info@LoblawCard.ca. Thank you for registering for a $25 Loblaw Card. Sincerely, Program Administrator

So, I replied ….

I just sent it to you twice already today! !!! It took you six months to ask for this? ??

I’ll send it AGAIN. Three times now in one day you’ve asked me for it. Yet it took you over six months to ask. And why me? I know about ten people who applied a month ago and already received it. None of which were asked to supply anything.

They applied FIVE MONTHS after I did and already received the card.

Is there a reason you think me, a 61 year old disabled crippled man is commiting fraud, but the youngkids across the hall from me applied the very last day and already got one?

I’m offended that out if so many people I know I’m the only one who has waited since February and now you think a disabled senior citizen is commiting fraud?

I’m dumbfounded by such prejudice.

Not too mention I shop at your store – which is right next door to my building for the last twenty some years EVERYDAY.

Here, for the third today – as requested is the proof that I’m not a fraud artist. I’ve sent it three times by email and twice now via the link.

If you think I am a senior citizen who goes around commiting crime I’m fine with that

Just say so.

Cause frankly, I’m quite insulted that today alone you have accused me 3 times. And for some reason you keep asking for the proof.

What? The first three or four times you think I’ve forged or something.

And you never answered my questions in my previous emails.

Why do you think I am committing fraud?

And most of all why did it take you six months to accuse just me out of many people in my building who waited a few weeks and never got accused of being a crook.

I answered your questions.

Disgusted and offended ;

Sincerely;

Daniel A. VERNER

Which they replied on July 13, 2018 …..

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for your email. Your document has been received and will be reviewed. We will contact you if we need any additional information is needed. You may continue to monitor your registration status at the following path: https://www.loblawcard.ca/en/status

There are various triggers that might lead our administrators to ask for ID, like large numbers of registrations from a single address, multiple requests under a single or similar name, irregularities in a registration, and many others. We want to get money in the hands of our customers quickly. But, we want to make sure it’s actually landing in their hands.

This is part of the standard approach of administering a program like this one, which is why the registration form indicates that ID may be requested in some cases.

Sincerely,

Program Administrator

CC

Here is the email content I sent them today …
“So, it’s been over seven months since I applied for your rebate card.

My claim number is WCB*****0

I wrote a few times now.

Received vague answers.

More or less got accused Iof attempted fraud. Three times you made me submit proof I wasn’t a liar.

I was actually one of the first to apply as I applied the very first day you announced the plan.

I’ve seen numerous young people receive their cards.

Which leads me to believe Loblaws only thinks elderly people are liars.

I’m writing CBC and CTV and forwarding all the emails and info I have received from this site since February 16, 2018.

As I stated the THIRD time you requested proof of address from me, I am offended that Loblaws has blatantly singled me out and has had seven months to send the card.

I’ll also start a Facebook page to inquire how many other seniors have not received these cards.

Perhaps it was just a few who received cards just to stop the public and media outcry for the price fixing scam you were part of?

Let’s see what the public’s verdict is.

Like my grandmother once said to me, “Once dishonest, always dishonest”.

I’ll be honest enough to send you the various links to the blogs and inquiries I am initiating today.

Sincerely,

Dan Verner, “

Leaves me to wonder if they are scamming the public by just sending out a few cards so as to avoid a class action law suit.

So, I ask you Loblaws, “Are you yet again scamming your customers like you have already by price fixing the bread products? What over scams could you be running on the very people who make your stores exist???

Leaves me wondering what Theodore Loblaw and John Cork would think of this fiasco ……

AFTERWARD OR AFTERWORDS

AFTERWARD OR AFTERWORDS

WHY I WRITE

Many ask me why l write.

I write my books for me.

I tell my stories for my readers.

“I am not sure if my works are badly written good stories or well written bad stories.

Not too sure I care either way. I do care that, in my “Walk With Dann Collection”, I am telling my life as brutally truthful as possible. In shame and in honour.

I do care that my ‘stand alone’ books, such as “The Last Canadian Cosmonaut” touch your heart.

I pray that my other collection, “Walking On Dawes”, shows that the gang life, although often ‘exciting’, leads only to karma biting your buttocks.”

My Walk With Dann Collection

Volumes 1, 2 & 3

“Damaged” is my first book.

Like me, it is raw and full of mistakes.

I have left it “unedited” as life has left me.

“DAMAGED”

Walk With Dann Collection

Volume 1

“A Walk from my birth till I meet my second wife.”

It is rough, crude in fact, numerous format conversion errors.

I left It raw on purpose as a testament to the honesty of my words and work.

It contains humour, murder, explosions and motorcycles.

It may or may not be fictional or may even be non-fictional.”

‘BANE’

“Walk With Dann Collection

Volume 2”

“Walks you through my middle years and three decades of marriage.

It does not contain the excitement of it’s predecessor.

It begins to show you who I was and who I was becoming.”

 

 

“BOON”

“Walk With Dann Collection

Volume 3”

“Walks you deep into my personal life of trials and tribulations and my uniquely twisted none the norm perception of my realty.”

So, come, Walk With Dann.

“THE LAST CANADIAN COSMONAUT”

(My first ‘standalone book‘, my personal favorite.)

“The smell of the ocean danced on my nostrils as I walked, slipping and sliding, across the flats. My eyes darting to and fro, carefully scanning ahead for sink holes.

I should have been walking the other direction. Towards the junior high school. Towards hippie teachers trying to teach me of science, faith and nature.

I could hear the train in the distance. Pulling it’s tonnage of sugar cane around the bend to the refinery.

The tug boats crested the horizon. Their wake spewing behind them as they pushed against the mighty tanker so as to slow it’s unforgiving momentum. Lest it run ashore.

The shore. My foster home was there. High up the hill. It’s windows like two large eyes, taunting me with guilt.“Go to school“, they seemed to say.

“I can’t”, my reply.”

“Walking On Dawes Collection“

 

“I WANT TO BE ‘FLOKI’”

“Walking On Dawes Collection”

“Volume 1”

“This is a tale of a family who live their lives within the gang life. Except Little Ray. He and his family want him to break the cycle and live a normal life.”

There is tragedy, laughter and most of all ‘insight’ within.

So come with us as we

“Walk On Dawes.”

 

 

“You Can’t See Me”

Walking On Dawes Collection

Volume 2

This is a portrait of a broken man living a broken life in a broken world where family and friendship are one and the same.

Where wrong choices can lead to lifelong regrets. Haunting the very soul and stabbing the heart daily to remind you of the penalties of actions.

Where a man can be all alone and un-noticed in a crowded room.

Where sadness shadows joy and joy masks sadness.

This is the life of one man on one street in one city.

A man who let his darkness blind his Light.

THIS MASK I WEAR

They say I am tough, but yet, I feel so rough.

This mask I wear has gotten me where?

Like Kid rock says,

“I’ve ate out of dumpsters and dined with Kings.”

Like the clock shows,

I have experienced many things.

Yet, in sorrow I have walked my many roads.

For the life I have lived was mostly alone.

I am, therefore I think

I have experienced pain and I have witnessed their sorrow.

I hope that they can forgive me on the ‘morrow.

For always in my heart I hold this sorrow.

Perhaps I should have been born in a swamp.

For an outlaw life seems what I want.

I have buried my Mother and 98 friends.

I wake each morning wondering,

“WHEN?”

 

And Still I Cry A Few Times Each and EVERY Day

I’m crying tears for you as I write this Sheena Eve. I will gladly let them flow wherever and whenever they fall. The tears burn tiny streams of pain down my cheeks until they become pools of love and joy in my heart.

They will dry when you walk me across the River into Valhalla and we sit at the round with food and drink.

I fear not my next death for life begins anew … and you will be there.

YET, I MISS YOU MORE THAN ANY OTHER IN MY LIFE WHO HAS ASCENDED.
#LightHouseDannVerner #AmazonAuthorLighthouseVerner #UNKZ #TheLastCanadianCosmonaut

BOBI WINE – UGANDA’S SO-CALLED “GHETTO PRESIDENT”

So, they freed up Bobi Wine on bail today.

Denying he was beaten and tortured while in custody.

Oddly the day he was arrested he could walk and talk. Strange how he left prison on crutches and speechless.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/Uganda-Bobi-Wine-released-on-bail/1066-4730816-cc4i39z/index.html

We in the free world have no idea what a struggle the Ugandan citizens exist in daily.

Can you imagine if we had to pay a tax for using “social media”?

Can you imagine how full our prisons would be if we were to be beaten, tortured and imprisoned just for having a different political opinion???

 

Quote from NTVUganda

“The High Court in Gulu has granted bail to Kyaddondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi and 32 others with whom he had been charged with treason. The 33 suspects were arrested in Arua on 13th and 14th August 2018, following the end of campaigns to elect the Arua Municipality MP.”

And why hasn’t the Western world spoke out about the strife of Uganda’s citizens????

I ask you this cause it is far more important than Trump or Trudeau’s political photo opportunities.

Brevity Rock Uganda – One love Family

Has Society Gone Mad??? Modern Day Sodom & Gomorrah

What next people? Damn, whatever drugs you are all doing is really taking their toll on your logic receptors.

We are living in a world of screwed up gender confused rainbow dancing weirdo’s from planet X – everything is about getting high and blowing your load.

Meanwhile our own people are sleeping on concrete, illegals are living in hotels, youth are gunning each other down in broad daylight and yet,

here we are fucking robots and spending tax dollars on rainbow crosswalks.

Modern day Sodom and Gomorrah for sure.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2018/08/aura-sex-dolls-toronto-brothel/

 

Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore or do they???

Modern day music has gotten lost in the money game. Majority of artists are just looking for fast coin. Few songs have any meaning. Certainly they tell no story.

Writers have forgotten to be “minstrels” and have neglected to tell a story, spread a message or sing from the heart.

There are many bands who do right – I have written about them on numerous occasions in prior blogs.

To name a few we have Vinnie Paz, Ill Bill, The Riot Police, LeRuz La Rose, Yelawolf, Ritz, John Moreland and Blackberry Smoke. And just about anyone under Yelawolf’s label.

And of course we have Toronto’s own Planky – @PlankyMusic

“Box Dem General” – support local, promote local and get your riddum on point

 

Y’all know I love all genre’s of song and music. My mind is a giant playlist of over sixty years of the love of music with meaning …. for instance

I woke with Big John Moreland’s song, “Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore” echoing through my head …..

“Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore
I can’t remember when I’ve felt this lost
I took a wrong turn trying to carry this cross
Why’d I have to go and get blessed with a curse
I’m chasing death or glory, whichever comes first

One for the money, four on the floor
You were born last week with your foot in the door
I heard truth is what songs are for
Nobody gives a damn about songs anymore

You had everything you needed to get it all right
You said you’re gonna get rich if it takes all night
Should I go to Texas or Tennessee
Or lock myself in Tulsa and throw away the key”

(Credits John Moreland – “In The Throes”, released June 11, 2013 license
all rights reserved)

And remember ….

I will just leave this with you. Enjoy! Show all some love and a share and a like

Who I Am

I am ‘LightHouse Dann Verner’.

A man who some say has lived many tragic lives.

The first decade of my life I had lived in thirty-two homes. None of which I ever spoke the words, “Mom or Dad”. Only “Mister or Misses”.

I started my ‘Walks’ at the age of ten fighting the monsters in my head. The demons were winning for many years.

I left my siblings Father’s house at the age of twelve to join a hippie commune and learned how to be a Heroin addict.

I have never slept in my father or mothers house since that day.

That was over fifty years ago.

Foster care, jails, pain, sorrow and addiction were my childhood friends. My playgrounds were the streets.My rocking horse a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Finally I was rescued via an arrest. Rescued from certain death.

Next was real life recovery. ‘Cold turkey’ style in Dorchester Federal Penitentiary.

Where, after many years, I finally found “ME”.

I have never gone back to jail since my release in 1981.

The powers that be Blessed me with three sons and many other “sons and daughters” that wandered into my life from broken homes.

I still have demons but I have learned to live with them. I can never undo the pains and sorrow I inflicted on my family and others.

But, I can stand as a man and take responsibility and hopefully be a better man and role model for those who are in my life.

I started blogging in 2002. It was a release of the demons within.

The blogging led to my becoming an author.

The author led to my wanting the world to know who I was and who I achieve to become.

I write my books for me and my inner persona’s.

For the reader, I tell my stories.

If my story changes but one life, then I have succeeded.

 

I paid a high price for my actions. Lost my childhood, my teens and yet I hold my head high for,

I am ‘Dann’, just as I am.

And so it is that I am ……..

So, come, Walk With Dann.

They Poked The Bear

Bless me this day Sheena Eve with your guidance, my beautiful Irish Guardian Angel – my “Shakie” demons done got loose and that is not a good thing for anyone. I am trying to tame that beast but humans annoy the shit out of me. Put everyone on notice, but there are stupid people who like to poke bears.
I’ll try to stay calm, but Shakie doesn’t do calm.

I cannot wait till I sit with you at the round in Valhalla and raise our glass in a good old Irish cheer.

Watch over me today …..
I must go wipe these tears …. until then I will remain Dann – fighting Shake

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