Happy Mother’s Day

Mom – this is not the spring you dreamed of – is it? Nope, it’s been a trying time as you, and we are limited to where we can go and what we can do. But we want you to know how much we love you! Yes, you’re the one who poured yourself into us…

Sean Willem van Gulik III

When we were the corps officers at Ottawa Citadel we had a number of folks who had come to Canada in the 1950s after World War 2 from Holland.  One of those families were the van Guliks. They all seemed to have remarkable talents – music, math, science, construction, computers… I was often enthralled to…

Parliament Hill 2017

Can you tell I’ve been revisiting pictures that I have and grouping them? Here’s a set… It’s not every day I get to pray in the Parliament buildings, but in a visit to the Hill with the Canadian Staff Songsters, that is what happened. The CSS sang in the rotunda and I prayed – it…