The blue chair

When Philip won the Alberta Skills Competition for Carpenters, this is the chair that he built, in record time. And it isn’t just a chair, it’s a folding chair. We got it, I’ve painted it now twice, and we’ve cherished it. It’s been a bit beat up after all these years now, and it was…

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Birds

Today at lunch time, I went out and just stood in the sunshine. The warm sunshine! Not much of a breeze, just warm sunshine with a bright blue sky! Can you see it? Can you feel it? Blue skies make the day better, even in the dead of winter! But today it’s warm enough not…

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Major Dr. James Watt

I have a very specific memory that has stuck in my mind. Strange how that is because it happened in the 1970’s and it wasn’t my experience, I just observed it, but it is warmly lodged in my memory. It happened in Newfoundland and it was at a great regional meeting of The Salvation Army…

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