Those people

You could almost hear the combined gasp when, today at Edmonton City Council (Executive Committee) a citizen presented his objections to an affordable housing initiative aimed at housing indigenous people. He referenced “those people” and “their friends”. I turned to Donny, who I was with and said, “did he just say those people?” Indeed, he…

A late night walk

Last evening as Nugget and I made our last walk of the evening I turned back towards our house as it sat in the darkness bathed in the light of the new lights and thought again how grateful I am for this place, for our health and for our dear family. I have never expected…

Update from The Villa

July has been wet and cool and yesterday was a repeat. One day it is 29 C and hot and sunny while today it struggled to get to 18 and it was cloudy, rainy and windy (YECK). But that’s this year’s weather. So to my first note on The Villa, it is a hard summer…