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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Spring!
Today is the day we turn from winter to spring! Despite the blanket of snow that still covers much of our landscape and the weather prediction that up to 7 cms. of snow might fall overnight; our spinning planet rotates … Continue reading
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Suicide
Last night was the second of our three-evening seminars on Mental Health. The topic was suicide. The topic was painful. The topic was heavy. But in the end there was hope. We had three people share their story. One was … Continue reading
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Still Alice
A few years ago our church Book Club read Lisa Genova’s powerful book Still Alice. It is the story of a highly educated and successful woman, a professor at Harvard, losing her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease. The book … Continue reading
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Grief and Green
I need to begin this blog by telling you that the dear friend that I wrote of last Friday died on Saturday evening. We knew this was the inevitable outcome of her disease but it came sooner than I expected. … Continue reading
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Till Death Do Us Part
A very dear friend of mine is slowly succumbing to the ravages of a disease that has stripped her of most of her physical ability. While cognitively she is as aware as ever her body is letting her down. She … Continue reading
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Scaredy-cat
“Come on, do it, what are you a sacredy-cat?” Do you remember that taunt from childhood? It came to mind the other day when I read a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt. Apparently she said, “Do one thing every day that … Continue reading
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Mental Health
In a recent article in the Toronto Star it said that, according to CAMH the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, while 72% of Canadians would discuss with others a diagnosis of cancer and 68% would talk about a family … Continue reading
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Sabbath
I am on holidays this week. I understand why God made Sabbath one of the commandments. It is so important to step out of the routine and the pressurized life that we live most of the time to just, well, … Continue reading
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2 minutes 57 seconds
Today the daylight lasted two minutes and fifty-seven seconds longer than yesterday. Suddenly the days seem longer. I know it doesn’t happen suddenly but it sure feels that way. It has, in fact, been a gradual movement since the winter … Continue reading
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Mea Culpa
Only 6 weeks into the new year and I have broken my New Year’s Resolution to write my blog on a regular basis. Mea Culpa (that’s Latin for “through my fault” and is an acknowledgment for doing wrong). I am … Continue reading
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