Hospitals are malls

Since my Dad was diagnosed with colon cancer in the late 1990’s ( I can’t remember the year anymore) I have been having a colonoscopy every five years. Yesterday was the latest. My goodness, that’s an unpleasant process for a 15-minute procedure that I can’t remember. The timing on this one was such that it…

Reflection on a Sunday am

Yesterday it was 20 degrees in Canmore, today Amanda says they awoke to snow. That’s living in Canada – that’s living in the mountains. Even here the weather is cool and very very wet. Rain has been persistent and low-lying areas are dealing with localized flooding. Living in the context of our weather makes it a…

Blessings abound

Something very different happened this past weekend. Wendy and I had a parallel celebration of sorts….let me start at the beginning. Last year in April Kingswood University had their grad weekend and I was invited as a graduating (graduand) student of their MA program. I was unable to attend and so missed the opportunity to…