Picture this: It’s Fall 2008 and the US Federal election race is in full-tilt. On the TV, Obama is speaking from the platform. Same powerful words, same inspiring message…except,...
PONDERING
Selling With True Colours
Have you ever had someone try to sell you something and you were left feeling completely annoyed and frustrated? Chances are your “buying style” did not match their “selling style”....
Being of Service
I recently began a new business venture with the idea that my services would be about helping people. A life committed to service worked well with my spiritual journey. At the same...
A Handicap or a Gift?
Our family was very poor. I was the oldest of four boys and my parents rented a house for $15 a month. It had electricity, but we didn’t have a refrigerator. We all used the outhouse...
Does Your Dog Multi-Task?
Ever feel like your life takes on a certain theme? As if somewhere out there in the great wide universe a course has been planned for you with very specific subject matter? Of course,...
Being Broken Open
Being “broken open” sounds pretty awful at first glance, doesn’t it? The meanings of words can be very different from one person to another—even to people who were raised in...
The Power of a Journey
Our auntie Jean passed away in the middle of April this year, and I was honoured to be with her in that moment of her final soft breath. For 17 years I was her closest relative on Vancouver...
Good Bye Nanaimo (Part 3): A New Life
Three weeks to the day after leaving Nanaimo, BC we pulled our tired, battered truck and trailer up to our new home, in Fosterville, NB. Our community is small, not even a village....
Lantzville Temporary Use Poetry
The best time to plant a fruit tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is now. Temporary land use permits do not honour the heritage orchards that have fed communites for generations. Somehow...
Death in Spring
Ramblings of an Old Flower Child: Death in Spring It seems like a paradox to think of death just as Spring ushers in a bursting forth of new life. Springtime is part of a repeating...
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