When it comes to celebrating, today is the most holy day of the Christian calendar year. I hope you’ve been impacted by the message of Christ this Easter weekend. But perhaps you’re among those for whom it’s really just another day. Allow me to encourage you. There is more. I read the following words from […]
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I’ve enjoyed close relationships with a great many elderly folk over the course of my life. And I have learned so many things from them all. I’m writing today about one of those things – the value experience has to education. So, this post is not about aging, it’s about the role of experience
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I’m retired. A lot of people aren’t. But as different as my life is these days, it’s more the same. I recently reviewed a list of tasks I had developed leading up to and in preparation for my retirement – a ‘to do’ list, if you will, so that I would be well prepared when
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An amazing friend of mine who is also an amazing photographer took this photo. When I look at it I am transported back in time to my childhood growing up in rural Canada. When I was a kid we knew the location and condition of every pond within a five mile radius of home. I
A few weeks back I promised a friend I would do some research into the unhealthy eating habits so prevalent in our culture with the consequent health issues that are epidemic these days in our part of the world, and rapidly spreading globally. Personally, I have made some conscientious efforts to eat healthy for most
Today is Groundhog Day and I’m hoping to watch one of my favourite movies – The 1993 cult classic, Groundhog Day! Over the years I have discovered that people’s opinions about it fall into two categories – either they love it or they hate it. When you find a really good movie it’s kind of
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. A number of years ago (2008 actually) I was privileged to spend some time in Israel and got to visit the Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Located on the Mount of Remembrance, Yad Vashem is a 45-acre campus with nine interactive galleries using personal items, testimonials, and documents
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A few weeks back (The Primacy of Reading) I shared this quote: “Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a
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How blessed (privileged) we are with the amount of excellent reading materials in our day. (I know that the loads of misinformation and disinformation coming down the pipe is a serious problem too, but there’s little inspiring about that!) My friend Jason loaned me his copy of a book he finished recently. I was somewhat
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You’ve got to love these little guys. Personally, I think they should be our national bird. Cute as all get out but tough as nails.