Good News…

I began this post a week ago and have been having trouble finishing it, but I have stuck with it because I feel like it’s important – important for me certainly.  It’s got a lot of the things that have been bubbling up in my mind these days – things that I need to get […]

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Lent Day 31 – 27 for me

I’m having a little difficulty settling on something to write about today.  I find myself thinking about Syria, but I don’t really want to write about that.  One of the byproducts of following the Trump administration is that I get caught up on a lot of other current events as they happen, and I saw […]

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Lent Day 29 – 25 for me

Following up from yesterday’s post, I had this really great moment at the passport office today.  I was dropping applications for two of my kids and my wife.  It’s easy enough for me to bike down from work over lunch, so it’s a good job for me. So I got up to the “triage” window […]

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Lent Day 20 – (17 for me)

This is attempt number four at a post coming from the weekend.  I started one on Sunday and then another one on Monday, then I finished one yesterday but then I started another one this morning before starting this one tonight.  Besides the one from yesterday, I couldn’t bring myself to finish any of the […]

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Lent – Day 8

I haven’t been doing well with my efforts to limit my exposure to political commentary.  I looked at a few last night after I finished my post.  In my Day 2 post for Lent I said that I wasn’t going to stay up late watching late night political shows on Youtube, but I haven’t been […]

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Into the Darkness

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Snow has fallen in Toronto.  It was one of those snows where it was only a couple of degrees away from rain, but then the temperature dropped another ten degrees Celsius and all that soft fluffy snow got crunchy and crisp – more like crumbly ice than soft fluffiness. In optimism I left my bike […]

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The Common Search

I was biking home the other night and I passed a woman on her bike and as I passed I could hear shouting coming from up the street, and as I continued on it became clear that the shouting was directed at this young woman.  As the words of the shouting became understandable, I was […]

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