Joy to Your World

Joy to Your World

by | Dec 29, 2023 | Mental Health, Spiritual Lessons

Just for the heck of it, I watched the 1999 remake of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ with Patrick Steward (aka Jean-Luc Picard) taking on Ebenezer Scrooge. The miserable-est of the miserable. The ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, showed his...
Stuffed

Stuffed

by | Dec 4, 2023 | Mental Health, Spiritual Lessons

How does the saying go? “Trying to stuff a 50 lb. sausage into a 10 lb. sack.” Not a pretty picture. Raking leaves, I was stuffing as much as I could into one big industrial strength bag – even if that meant laying on the bag to compress for more room. One might...
Can You Spot the Elk?

Can You Spot the Elk?

by | Aug 2, 2023 | Mental Health, Spiritual Lessons

What I love about photography is that your photos are your unique lens on life and the world. Two people capture the same event differently. A photo also asks – who took this picture, where is so and so, and where was this pic taken? After saying all that,...
Missing the Obvious

Missing the Obvious

by | Jun 6, 2023 | Learning, Spiritual Lessons

Anyone besides me miss things that are right under your nose even though you’ve been looking high and low? Cleaning up in the aftermath of my annual Easter egg colouring/candy hunt event for my seven grandkids, I found chocolates. Chocolates overlooked that I...
Finding our Way

Finding our Way

by | Nov 9, 2021 | Learning, Spiritual Lessons

I read an elementary school outdoor sign that said: “Autumn is a good time to let go of things.” I wonder how many kids, parents and passerbys see that sign every day and think about what they have had to let go of? How can the seasons be so steadfast when our lives...