Sunday morning breakfast prayer

Thank you, 

Creator,

for the simplicity of my breakfast,

the Symphony of birdsong 

and the beauty of this day.

+Amen

Four hundred and twenty-one

Angel butterflies on the sashes
worn by volunteers at today's 
Homeless Memorial Service

At the Homeless Memorial Service organized by the Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness today, four hundred and twenty-one people who died of causes related to homelessness in 2023 were remembered, grieved, and honoured. 

The city medical examiner's report to city council listed the shocking number of 302 people who died with "no fixed address" last year, but this even more horrific number includes people who lived on the streets for years and whose health failed because of the effects of homelessness even though they may have been housed at the time of their death. 

Effie, who I met last July, was one of them. Effie, a beautiful butterfly like the Painted Lady butterflies released today in honour of the many people we have lost to the effects of homelessness.

My spirit is with everyone who attended the service to remember someone special today. My grieving heart tells me that we are all one family, and that we need to do whatever it takes so that no one, 
no one, 
no one is homeless.

It's time for change.

Taking a wee break

It's time for a little vacation, so Simple Moodlings might not appear in your inbox for the next few weeks (not that it's been very regular of late). 

In the last few months, Lee and I sold our car that had the capacity to pull our tent trailer to our kids, and bought a plug-in electric hybrid vehicle to cut our carbon emissions.

That meant that our tent trailer days ended too. We sold our 21-year-old Coleman trailer to a young family who will love it as much as we did, and bought a tent and a nice thick camping mattress.

And now we're off to Southern Alberta for a while, trusting our daughter and Creator's good weather to keep the garden going in our absence. I've scheduled one moodling for June 6, but will likely take the rest of the month off.

Have a lovely June! I intend to do just that.