The tragic loss of lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut has stirred many people deeply…in a variety of ways. We see grieving parents and identify with the loss, school children wonder about safety and have fears as the vulnerability of life becomes very real, and others rise up in anger at injustice …
Melodious Creativity
Has me be grateful for what I have…makes me think twice about wanting “more”…has me honor and admire those who create beauty and loveliness out of nothing, has me be inspired to create joy out what I find right immediately around me, convinced that it is totally possible… Wow!
Espy’s got style!
Espy has continued to be a cool conversation piece around the office…these amaryllis plants are enough to shock anybody with their amazing growth… Espy was 22.3 cm 2 weeks ago… a week ago she was 31.0 cm and on Friday she was up to 41.6 cm… Ah-MAZE-ing I have to admit though, the growth of …
The Value of Fun
I remember a good friend telling me, in a difficult time of life when I was stressed and struggling, and wondering how to make it through a day that when I cooked spaghetti for the tribe and I should throw a strand towards the ceiling to find out it is was cooked. I looked at …
The balance bar
Permeable and porous…not wide open, nor shut tight. Sigh… …so not easy. I wrote recently of the challenges and the richness of “both/and” living…embracing the joys and sorrows of life simultaneously. It’s easier to be “either/or”…a Pollyanna or an Eeyore…but being stuck in one posture leaves little flexilibility to be both joyful and authentic, to …
Empathy–critical for connection
There are a multitude of reasons that folks–strangers and friends alike–don’t work to be warm with you…reasons why” she doesn’t greet you with a smile at the checkout a fellow customer bumps into you at the grocery store and keeps going without acknowledgement, he doesn’t ask you about how your day is going, or the …
Gonna think differently about those pickles now!
I posted recently on the interesting things we choose to complain about in our culture…recognized that when we read broadly, learn about other situations, and generally interact with our world, it grounds us. When we recognize that life is different for others, that others struggle with different issues, things that we used to complain about …
I dared greatly
So, today was Fall Convocation at the University of Manitoba. Occupational Therapy students graduate in Fall Convocation because of the way the U of M program is run…so today was the graduation luncheon for the students. I got a call several days ago asking if I would present the Communications Award at the luncheon. Makes …
First World Problem
Winnipeg has a new garbage removal system. To say it hasn’t gone so well, is sorta like saying the Pope is a little bit Catholic. So, around our house this is the score: The recycling hasn’t been picked up in two weeks…yard waste for three weeks. There is only so much yard waste that is …
One of those moments
Every once in a while, life collides to create a “moment”…today was one of those days. I had a groupon for the Caramel Crepery at the Forks…and so we went for crepes today at lunchtime…one of the group heard that Red Bull Stratos was happening…Felix Baumgartner was attempting to break the sound barrier as an …