I’ve been thinking about my grandparents again lately. It seemed like the two summers preceding the one we are in now were almost identical: our family away on summer vacation, getting home and finding out the news that a grandparent is dying, funeral a week later.
We got home from our summer holiday on July 25, [...]
It feels like things are changing in me, like I’m looking at things in a new way. About a month ago I was laying in bed with my eyes closed thinking. I have a way I see things when I think. When I lay there at night I actually see images in my head that [...]
It’s been nice settling back into normal life. Funny how going back to regular life seems so easy now when it normally overwhelms me. But it’s been good. Getting the house back in order has been especially good. I hate living in mess. I have gotten used to it being married to Marc and having [...]
Tonight was not pretty. You know how the saying goes, “It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings”? Well, tonight, it was like the mass choir that loudly sings out a mixture of dissonant notes while the boat in the movie is caught in a horrendous storm and the only possible ending is for all [...]
(Instead of writing up a whole other post, I’m just going to copy and paste from the discussion in my on-line course today. There you go. I’m being efficient.)
For some reason I think this little vignette from my morning with the kids fits into this discussion. We’ve been talking about suffering from different perspectives. This [...]
(Listen to “The Valley” while you’re reading.)
When I drove into the city the other day, I listened (and sang along) to one of my favourite albums ever: KD Lang’s Hymns of the 49th Parallel. The whole album is a beautiful, bittersweet experience. But the song “The Valley” (written by the wonderful Jane Siberry) has always [...]
(And, no, it’s not the scurrying of little rodent feet that I’m sure I heard in the floor vents yesterday. Even though I know I heard them. We’ll just forget about that until there’s any further evidence of rodent life in our house again. Rather…)
Tonight I had a moment (a rather long moment) of panic [...]
(If you have not had a chance to read the birth story I linked to on Thursday, please take the time to do that now. Today I emailed Kelle, the writer of that blog and the mother of beautiful Nella, to ask her permission to use a photo from her blog and post my thoughts. [...]
I saw these pictures today via Randall’s blog. They are truly horrifying. I can’t even begin to imagine what the people in Haiti are going through right now. Utter devastation. But, you know what the strange thing is? Do you know when I got choked up looking at those pictures? It was the first picture [...]
We’re back in Prince Albert for Christmas. Because it’s our first Christmas with both Granny and Grandpa gone, I worked on putting some home videos onto dvd to bring back here — Christmas 2007 (our last with Granny) and Christmas 2008 (our last with Grandpa). I filled the dvd with the months around those Christmases. (I’m [...]