Category Archives: Family

Trying to see I to I

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

Sunday morning in the church yard. Glaring sunlight. A couple of my fellow parishioners were seated on a bench; the man was wearing dark glasses. I started a conversation with the man, who told me how he was letting his … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Days 38-40)–Learning to make do

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

As befits a Lenten challenge, it was not going to be easy. Coming to the end of the forty days, I found myself in a situation totally unenvisaged: I was travelling and unable to easily write or post my thoughts. … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 27)–Highly deadly black tarantula

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

Collaboration. Beware if you ask for input: you may just get put into a difficult position. But, what fun it is to have no idea and then see how others’ ideas can be melded into a lovely looking tapestry. I … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 25)–Wonderful-Redux

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

I have to laugh. I let ‘And me, of course’ read the previous post on our way to school. “You could write a little more…maybe about growing up from birth to nine years old…,” she said. How interesting! She happens to … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 22)–Happenstance

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

The happenstance of happiness. Did you grow up during a time when many things in your lives involved people coming to your neighbourhood to sell? Did you grow up having to go to market regularly; if not to market, then … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 19)–Storytellers

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Getting that story out. I like to say that everyone has a story. Last night, I was with a friend from church doing a stint trying to help some homeless men who are trying to get jobs with computer literacy. … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 10)–Fares, please!

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

Sitting on the upper deck of a London bus. When I woke this morning, I was in a terrible state: my eyes were itching and my head was really buzzing. I had a need to do a brain dump… It … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 5)

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

It takes a village to raise the children. I spent a good portion of Saturday afternoon sitting in the bleachers, high above a swimming pool in which my nine year-old was competing. Most of the time I was a point … Continue reading →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 2)

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

My mental cutting room floor has a few discarded ‘likes’ lying there this morning–rock music (Cream; Yes; Hendrix; Captain Beefheart; Jeff Beck: Clapton…); afro hairstyles (sings the theme for ‘Hair’ )…. But, to the surface, floated the following. Don’t seek rhyme … Continue reading →

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A boy’s life

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

Yesterday, I was due to have lunch with my 3rd grade buddies at Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys, which is in Congress Heights in SE Washington DC. I’d promised them the previous week that I would arrive earlier … Continue reading →

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