Today in Paul Asay’s blog, Body Parts, John Ziegler, founder and pastor of the First Church of Tiger Woods, announced he was shutting the church down in light of Woods’ apparent personal failings.
“Tiger is clearly no longer deserving of being seen as a role model or a hero and he has needlessly… [Continue Reading]

Approximately 100 friends honored us with their presence yesterday at our 60th Wedding anniversary!

The music provided by Connections and Rob Hess was outstanding….every one wanted to know where we found them!  We and many others wept as Rob sang “O Holy Night.” We had never heard it sung like that! It was as though we had… [Continue Reading]

The senior man lived alone with his beloved cello.  He played it when he was distressed and sad, and he would play it when he was happy and filled with gratitude.  Sometimes he would play it for no reason at all, just for the sheer enjoyment… [Continue Reading]

Silence is golden; but sometimes it’s just yellow . . .
“I’m a woman sitting here, with all my words intact,
like a basket of green fruit. “
Rosario Castellanos, “Silence Near an Ancient Stone”
1952
 
The other day I encountered an ‘ancient male mindset…. a belief system set in stone’ .
I have to… [Continue Reading]

….60 years ago this morning I woke up for the last time as a single girl… that night Lorne Pritchard tied the knot when I married Art Sheppard in a little church on Strawberry Hill in Surrey, B.C. Art spent his last single night at the home of a long time friend, Ingvold Ingvelson.  I… [Continue Reading]

Thinking it over . . .
 
        A Chinese Philosopher insisted on riding his mule backward so he would not be distracted by where he was going and could instead reflect on where he had been. The past, for him, was an important source of information, knowledge and wisdom.
 
Adlai Stevenson… [Continue Reading]

 
HEADLINES
 
   THE PROVINCE NEWSPAPER . . . SUNDAY, AUGUST 16/2009
 
A  CLASS ACT
 
“Former street kid offers $1 million in scholarships to 10 students to live and learn in B.C. Find out how you can be one of them.”  
 
 
Dean Duperron was 18 and living on the… [Continue Reading]

Today, the Press interviewed Michael Vick, convicted NFL Star / Dog-Fighting Entrepreneur.
His 18-month prison incarceration for the questionable dog sport was the topic of discussion:
When asked if he would engage in Dog-Fighting again, Vick answered:
 
“We each have our own iniquities . . . I have learned a lesson . . . it’s… [Continue Reading]

 
“What on Earth is God Doing . . . where on Earth is He . . . ?”
 
 
She was savvy and brilliant, bold and beautiful . . . a 23 year old business woman looking me straight in the eye!  Her questions were poignant . . . things which I always took for granted about… [Continue Reading]

Soul food from unusual sources . . .
 
 Don’t you just love it when someone comes along who has a greater ability to express the ’silent restlessness’ of our soul than we can?  I call such unrest my ‘hungering and thirsting’ for fresh manna, mixed with the virgin oil of Truth. For the… [Continue Reading]