The Power of Gratitude I was sailing with a friend and the desired direction of travel was north. I said, “Murray, we want to go north and the wind is from the...
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God Gave Us Brains Shelly dabbed her lips with the white, linen napkin and tossed her auburn curls from her face. Her hazel eyes shone in the candlelight as...
Chapter 192 It’s deceptively large. Thus said I this morning discussing the volume capacity of a glass pot. The optical and sensible illusions of life…...
The Telescope One day, when I was a child, Dad brought a telescope home from work. Heavy, made of brass, it was a piece of official equipment from a friend who...
Chapter 191 Summer fun. Green fields, trees throng and wildlife aplenty. This is the season of fortunate abundance in our glorious foothills. As we meander...
Lessons I Have Learned At one time I had a book entitled something like, “The Greatest Lessons of Life I Learned in Kindergarten.” A few weeks ago I was...
Number Fun Amanda skips along the stony trail. “…sixteen…seventeen, eighteen…nineteen…twenty‑twentyone‑twentytwo‑twentythree…twenty‑four!” A delighted squeal...
Chapter 190 Greetings dear reader. Back in the land of wild winds and wonderful vistas, the mountains greeting my morning excursions and implacable great grey...
What Is a Democracy? Several years ago I was doing a leadership seminar in Ottawa. During one of the sessions I made a comment that democracy was the superior...
A Pea-Souper Dad said it was a ‘pea-souper’. I had gone to a friend’s house after school and was now walking up the hill to my home, a scarf tied over my mouth...
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