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Thursday, August 21, 2025

August Daze

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I'm feeling a bit dazed of late as my vertigo has made a sudden return, but even so, I'm loving this August.  I'm not sure I lik...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

2025 Garden Report

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Our garden this year is a bit more chaotic than it has been, mainly because I'm working about eighteen hours a week and dog-walking anot...
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Monday, August 4, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #63: Amazing Grace?

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Here's a Monday Music Appreciation Moodling with an update about what's been going on for Inner City Pastoral Ministry lately. I...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

A re-moodling: Taking a chance on each other

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Every so often, someone reminds me of something I've moodled in the past, and I go back to it to be happily surprised by what's ther...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #62: Some good new bluegrass

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As mentioned in my "An offer I can't refuse post," my last "official" shift at the Winspear last week introduced me ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Sunday Reflection: Teach us to pray

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Today's reflection is brought to you by  Luke 11:1-13. How should we pray  in times like these? Creator, I want a straight answer. We he...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

An offer I can't refuse

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For the past month, I've been feeling sad... I made the decision to leave my "dream job" at the Francis Winspear Centre for Mu...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Prayers, please

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Our Inner City Pastoral Ministry's Community of Emmanuel has suddenly hit a bump in the road. Please pray for us as we determine how to ...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #61 -- Jann Arden's Good Mother

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I think Jann Arden is a wonderful human being. She's a great musician (I got to see her perform at one of my last Winspear shifts in Jun...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Sunday Reflection: Who is my neighbour?

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Today's reflection is brought to you by  Luke 10:25-37. (Today was my Sunday to lead morning prayer at the Community of Emmanuel at Inne...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Sunday Reflection: No turning back, no holding back

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Today's reflection is brought to you by Luke 9:57-62. It's the 5th Sunday of the month, and it was my turn to offer the reflection f...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Joke of the day (for Uncle Fred)

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We had Bible Study today, and Jesse brought a joke that goes like this... A priest, an imam and a rabbit walk into a bar. For some unknown r...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The grandfather tree

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This morning, Remi and I visited what a friend of mine calls "the grandfather tree." It's big and beautiful, and I'm sorry...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #60: A plea for the broken hearted

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I had a really beautiful birthday weekend, including a profoundly moving sweat with friends out near Maskwacis, a back yard barbecue with fa...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Where I have been

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A short break on the shore  at Lake Wabamun last week I've been all over the place for the last while. Not so much locationally, but hea...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #59: A beautiful river

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This has to be one of my very favourite pieces of classical music. It's known as The Moldau, composed by Bedřich Smetana as part of a sy...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

MCWC #24 Sister Wind

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Pope Francis in his Papal Fiat, July 2022 On Sunday evening, Lee and I watched Conclave , a most interesting movie that came out last year, ...