Happiness

What is there to be happy about? The news is terrible. Death, despair, tragedy, hurt and loss. What is there to be happy about it. Let me say, you can have personal happiness and optimism, and recognize that the world is a difficult place and there is much to make one anxious. And yet, let…

Dad at 95

We were away when Dad’s birth date when zooming by. I was walking along the street in downtown Calgary, the city I was born in, thinking about Dad at 95. What would that have been like. A compassionate man who loved his family deeply I think would have been more compassionate, more loving. That’s my…

Shout out to Cath

Many years ago, many many years ago, when Cath was a baby, a time when I did not stick a diaper pin into her, she seemed so young! “Who will look after this little baby when Mom and Dad get old?”, I thought. Time has moved along, and she’s had two babies of her own….