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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Christmas Camp and other fun

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Today is Christmas Camp for the L'Arche Edmonton Community, a chance for everyone to get out into nature and enjoy some winter fun. Ther...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Happy Christmas!

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It's almost here! In two hours we'll be singing O Come All Ye Faithful with a children's choir as Christmas Eve mass begins. And...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Still here, just busy getting Christmassy

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I know, I missed my usual Sunday moodling... because we headed south to see Lee's mom and dad, and when we got home, we went out Ed'...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Simple Suggestion #222... Share a Christmas story

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I've been thinking about this Simple Suggestion for weeks now, and remembering and reviewing Christmas stories I heard as a kid. There a...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Oh, those O Antiphons!

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When I woke up in this morning's deep darkness to the radio news, I wanted to cry. Death in Sydney's chocolate shoppe. Much more de...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Praying more slowly

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The Magnificat window in the Church of Reconciliation, Taizé. See John and Jesus? Last night we had a gorgeous, Advent-y Taizé prayer ...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Taize Prayer 2015

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If you’ve never experienced Taizé Prayer, I would encourage you to visit the website at www.taize.fr , and check out a playlist of music ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Gifts from the compost heap part II -- Christmas tomatoes

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(To see Gifts from the compost heap part I, click here.) Here's a wee gardening update about our "experimental tomatoes" tha...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Simple Suggestion #146 revisited... Enjoy a simple Christmas Pageant

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I'm so excited! My favourite Christmas activity of the year is less than a week away -- our L'Arche Edmonton Christmas pageant! If...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

The whole truth for a Sunday

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This week I paid a visit to my local library. It's been a few years since our family's weekly routine of hauling home a bag filled w...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Too good not to share

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This video arrived on my iPod yesterday morning thanks to my old friend, Dale. I was hoping that Laughing Buddha, who made the video, was an...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Simple Suggestion # 221... Befriend someone with a disability

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Did you know that tomorrow is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities ? Since 1992, December 3rd has been designated by the Un...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Awakening to Advent

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When your mental judgmental grid and all its commentaries are placed aside, God finally has a chance to get through to you, because your p...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

The power of a river, of love

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The city has vanished today, it's snowing that hard. I know it's there on the other side of a wall of whiteness, but it's not ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Simple Suggestions #145 and #188 revisited... Observe Buy Nothing Day

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Here it comes again! The day after American Thanksgiving and the consumption of all that turkey has been designated an anti-consumptio...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Christ the Knave?

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The Knave of Hearts, he stole my heart and took it clean away.                   --English nursery rhyme, adapted. To be completely ho...