Today was one of those days when my body decided to be my enemy and leave me in some pretty excruciating pain. To add to it, a call from the doctor’s office revealed that, although not life threatening, they found the reason for my pain and wanted me to come
Keep Reading ... →Last night I came across a section from Kahlil Gibran’s, “On Children.” As I read, I reflected on my own experience with my parents, the experiences of my siblings, the stories I’ve heard from people’s experiences with their parents, and the experience I hope to create for my own children
Keep Reading ... →I was walking home from an appointment this afternoon when I decided to walk through the Public Gardens (a beautiful fenced in garden in downtown Halifax) and spend a few minutes soaking in some sun and reading Wizard’s First Rule, the book I was talking about in yesterday’s post. When the alarm went
Keep Reading ... →I watched a video today that had me smiling in moments. It was about a 71 year old man , Steven Jepson, whose philosophy in life is “never leave the playground.” For Jepson, that means keeping active, agile, sharp, and exuberant by daily play. Jepson had me wanting to head
Keep Reading ... →For the first time in a well over a week I was able take a few consecutive hours to work on what will be my first full-length novel. I’m mere hours away from having the first draft completed and unlike the last few times I went to write, when I
Keep Reading ... →It’s a wet and dreary day in Halifax. Halifax gives its residents a lot of these days, however, on days like today, when it’s been awhile and we’ve been blessed with sun, I treasure the rain and the fog. It’s somehow endearing in this harbour town, the way a Leonard
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Today Awhile ago, I volunteered at my local YMCA. I was the first presenter in their kids’ camp ‘try something new‘ week. That new was Zumba, and it really was new. Not a single child had done it before. I was told to expect about 15 kids there, along with a few
Keep Reading ... →Driving from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia today I was blessed with that simple joy that comes from feeling content to be alive and where you are in a particular moment. I usually find the drive long and monotonous, with constant checks to the clock. I’m not sure why, but
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The first CD I ever bought was a Christian rap group’s album: DC Talk’s Free at Last. One of the songs, “Luv is a verb,” was the catalyst to the way I’ve tried to view love throughout my life. As a result of this song, various things I’ve read, observations I’ve made,
Keep Reading ... →I finished yesterday‘s the previous post with reference to way we so often delay dealing with the problems of life and the way those problems usually end up growing and often, because of the mental strain they create, steal from our Joy. M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Travelled says the
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