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September 23, 2014
Sunrise
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And then this: a gift freely given every day. Clouds floating on a sky like water. Fire above, mysteries of home below.
Filed under: Light Tagged: spirituality
September 19, 2014
Sharing Joy
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He owed me nothing. I didn’t know him. But he looked at me holding my camera, and he smiled, this city worker with a front tooth missing. His joy infected me, and the colours of the world became brighter.
The beauty is in its ordinariness. We don’t require genius or sacrifice to fulfill life’s purpose, nor do our imperfections prevent it.
Filed under: purpose Tagged: ordinary wonders
September 14, 2014
So You Want Me To Get Screened?
I had the privilege of talking about cancer screening with a dozen women who have a history of child abuse. This is what I learned:
Filed under: Concerning, Uplifting Tagged: cancer screening, health care and child abuse
September 13, 2014
Ugly Duckling?
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I don’t buy it Mr. Andersen. Maybe the mother duck was surprised, overwhelmed, or even envious, but the baby wasn’t ugly, and she lied. We come into the world as beautiful cygnets. Every one of us.
Filed under: purpose Tagged: spirituality
September 10, 2014
Shadows
Photo by Lilian (click to enlarge)
If you’re afraid of shadows, look at them more carefully. Can you see how they reveal another dimension that is not otherwise apparent? New leaves grow in cracks, and shadows are beautiful.
Filed under: have no fear Tagged: spirituality
September 7, 2014
Your Real Job
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Your job is to love. Everything else is your occupation.
Filed under: purpose Tagged: spirituality
September 5, 2014
Atwood & the 100 Year Forest
Depending on perspective, it is an author’s dream – or nightmare: Margaret Atwood will never know what readers think of the piece of fiction she is currently working on, because the unpublished, unread manuscript from the Man Booker prize-winning novelist will be locked away for the next 100 years.
via Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century | Books | theguardian.com.
Trees planted in a forest outside Oslo will provide the paper for books written currently but unrevealed until the trees mature in a century when the books will be published. Read the whole story at the link above.
This story made me smile: the optimism of it, the creativity (designed by an award winning Scottish artist, Katie Paterson), the international cooperation, and the choice of an eminent Canadian author to kick it off!
Three cheers for paper books and long-term thinking!
Filed under: CanLit Tagged: future of books
July 10, 2014
Review: A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944
A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 by Willy Peter Reese
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The powerful memoir of a German infantry soldier during WW2, A Stranger to Myself was written in 1944 a few months before the author died, drawn from his detailed journals written at the Front. Because of that, it has an immediacy that other books, with their post-war hindsight, lack. This isn’t a who-what-when of battles, but the profound emotional and spiritual impact of war on a young man on the ground, speaking to the experience of the unspeakable. German war memoirs are far fewer than those of the allies. Even this one wasn’t published until a few years ago: Reese’s mother was unable to find a publisher during her lifetime. I am very glad for ebooks in this case: I wouldn’t be able to find it in paper. But I was able to download it and in a weekend, I’d finished it. I am still thinking about it.
Filed under: Miscellany
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