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Monday, January 30, 2023

Monday Music Appreciation #2 -- and now for something completely different

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At work at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music on Friday night, I was lucky to sit in on a viola concerto played by the Edmonton Symphony ...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

A Sunday chant -- from Taizé

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You might recall the beginning of the pandemic, and how uncertain everything was. Suddenly, the world as we knew it was forced to stop, and ...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Walking at Riverlot 56

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As someone whose appreciation for nature is constant, I really loved the walk Lee, Suzanna, Shadow-dog, and I took on Sunday afternoon. We f...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Monday music appreciation #1

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Since Appreciation is my word of the year, I've decided to note things I appreciate here in my moodlings. And since music is one of the...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

A Sunday song to speak to us all

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Somewhere in the past week, I heard someone say something to the effect that Jesus called fishermen to follow him because he needed a getawa...
Friday, January 20, 2023

How can we rise up?

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Yesterday our Inner City Pastoral Ministry Bible study on the Grandparent Teachings wrapped up with the final teaching of Love. We always ge...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Another good Sunday song

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Farley has sung this song at Community of Emmanuel many times, but for some unknown reason, it touched me at a deeper level today.  I wanted...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

2023 Word of the Year

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Those who follow these moodlings know that I like to choose a word at the beginning of every year as something of a theme on which to focus ...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

A prayer for 2023

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Happy New Year, friends! This morning at the Community of Emmanuel, Pastor Jim shared a beautiful prayer that he wrote, and I asked him if I...
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Sunday, December 25, 2022

New Year's Letter 2023

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Sacred Bond by James Neafsey, a favourite image of mine that can be found if you  click here . Happy New Year, friends far and near! Hope ...
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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Hey, you missed a few!

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It's been a busy Advent this year, making it hard to get to moodling here. But I have a sweet story that I've been thinking about al...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

How to give thanks

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It's been at least two years since I first ran into the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address in Robin Wall Kimmerer's wonderful book, ...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Movie Time!

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I know, you're probably getting tired of me writing about homelessness, but I promise, this will be the last such post for a while... La...
Friday, November 25, 2022

Buy Nothing Day = Black Friday avoidance

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I almost got sucked in this year. Almost. My inbox held a "Black Friday 15% off!" email from a company that I deal with on a regul...
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Friday, November 18, 2022

Angel seeks a home

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When my mother-in-law was dying, she told me that she wanted me to have the angel that sat near her bedside. Knowing Angel meant something t...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Shadow's tenth winter

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It's a marshmallow world out there, and Shadow-dog is not impressed. It's his tenth-eleventh winter already (well, he'll be ten ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Thanks, I needed that!

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How are you doing these days?  Me, I've been feeling the weight of the world a bit too much. So when my sister sent me this video this m...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Let it snow?

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My moodling for the past few weeks has mostly been in my head as I've been busy with the last of the garden produce and cleaning up befo...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

This Is Where We Live

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I've been learning a lot lately about the affordable housing crisis in Canada. After the Great Wars, we had a series of governments that...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

God is ecumenical

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Here's a definition of ecumenical, according to Merriam-Webster: ec·​u·​men·​i·​cal   |   \  ˌe-kyə-ˈme-ni-kəl     ,  -kyü-   \ Definiti...