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, [...]
Although Madeline is adamant about and correct in saying that “Spring does not start until Saturday!”, there is no snow on the field across the street, so I am saying it is springtime. Or at least that winter is now over. Can I just say that I cannot believe we survived the winter? I normally [...]
(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 just spent the last half hour colouring rainbow bubble letters on the flyer for the music class my friend and I teach. Why? Well, firstly, because our colour printer does not seem to work any more. And, secondly, because I really love to colour.
I did a double, sequential, reversing rainbow for the letters of [...]
(Like 11pm after the exhausting efforts of a poorly attended open house and before I will jump on my bike at 8:30am to get to the church because I lead worship tomorrow…)
Marc and I just finished watching Adaptation. I must say that I’m not really a huge fan of the Kaufman boys’ films. Not so [...]
Sometimes I feel inspired when I write a post. Sometimes I have this feeling like now is the time (and usually far too late at night) for me to get these particular thoughts out, and it all just sort of flows out of my fingertips. But tonight I don’t feel any of that. Yet, there’s [...]
Is there anything worse than feeling trapped? Having to write a difficult exam because you have to be in school. Having to fulfill an obligation you hastily said “yes” to. Having to work at a job you don’t like because the bills have to be paid. This feeling has come and gone in me over [...]
In one of my ethic’s classes in university we discussed whether or not the “collective good”, or if you want to call it the “overall happiness”, of a culture would be greater if there was one person suffering greatly somewhere (and if it would matter if everyone was aware of that person). In this [...]
Life is a gamble. If you’re going to shoot for something really good, you’ll have a greater chance of getting something really bad. Then there are things that just hover in the middle. So, are a lot of these things worth the risk? Here are examples of the dialectic of life, where if you’ve got the good then [...]
Well, today it’s “The Tao of Scott Hahn found in a book by Peter Kreeft“, but it fits so well with all of this balance stuff that I think about in this “tao” of mine, that I had to put it here:
“There are natural mysteries (for instance, time, life, love), just as there are supernatural [...]