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Just Drop the Blanket
Originally posted on The Way I See It:
This time last year, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” aired on national prime time television for the 50th time. In a world where the latest greatest technology is outdated in a matter of months, and social media trends come and go in a matter of days, 50 years…
Unthinking
Today I planned on posting the latest in the saga of the frozen locks on Canada Post community mailboxes. However, I wasn’t thinking when I finished writing the post, or perhaps I was just not paying attention. Instead of scheduling the post to run today at the usual time, I pressed “Publish” and it immediately […]
First Sunday of Advent…
…and nothing has really changed from last year. My daughter’s cat, who usually behaves like a dog (all the worst dog features imaginable), for some reason spends Advent thinking she is a Christmas tree ornament. I’m sure I’ll get some much better shots of her in the tree before Christmas Day arrives.
Family Advent Celebrations
Originally posted on Paul Anderson:
Tomorrow is the first day of Advent. For the uninitiated, Advent is celebrated in Western churches to mark the coming of Christ, and it begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. In churches I have attended, the first Sunday of Advent involved lighting the advent wreath (which has four candles…
Psychological Test
Once upon a time there was a girl. At her mother’s funeral she met a man whom she did not know. She thought he was amazing, her dream guy, and she fell in love with him but never asked for his number and could not find him after the funeral. A few days later the […]
JJ’s Christmas
In the stores this week I noticed the Christmas music playing for the first time this year. It might have been playing for weeks already, but I may have tuned it out. I’m almost done with Christmas music for the year. I’m a programmer for a satellite music channel (heard throughout North America and I […]
Truly Random Thoughts For Your Sunday
Watching the Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial on television Friday I was struck once more with the passage of time. When I was younger, the elderly veterans at the cenotaph were my grandfather’s generation, men who had fought in the First World War. Those men are long dead. It has been 71 […]
Remembering
I only know her name, nothing else about her. And where she lived in 1916,a place that I had never heard of before, Manor, Saskatchewan. By 1921 she lived in Verwood, a place that no longer exists. Today we remember those who died in the war, fighting for our freedom. I will be thinking of […]
Thanks For The Memories
“Gee guys, I wish you had asked me sooner. I just accepted an offer to become lead singer of the Beatles.” – 15-year-old Burton Cummings response to being asked to join The Guess Who. He was kidding of course. But that oft-told story is an example of Burton’s legendary self-confidence. He did leave his band, […]
Real Life Dilemma
I was on the phone with a friend who was updating me on his recent health challenges. He said his doctor had asked him a question. His situation is serious. Actually that is an understatement. He is facing a life-threatening situation, a brain tumor in a very tricky location. Surgery is a necessity, and even […]
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