Travel in Asia enabled me to embrace a whole new world of sensory input. After a happy, conventional life as a nurse, wife, and mother, I learned about faiths I hadn’t been exposed to before. The vibrant colors and music of Indian religions appealed to me as did the peace and acceptance of Buddhism and […]
Stories
The Lucid Dream
I was climbing a high mountain. Halfway to the top, it became slippery. I couldn’t go farther. The dust fell all over and around me. I couldn’t see anything. I was the only witness to my struggle. My hands desperately tried to find something to hold on to. The mountain was falling apart. So was […]
Being Eternal: Aging and Recycling:
When my grandfather came to Canada from the Ukraine in the 1920’s he had no money and no where to stay so he slept in the cemetery at 4th and Broad in Regina. He had been raised an orthodox Christian but with some sort of old-country superstitions (think like Romania). After sleeping several nights in the graveyard […]
Nothing Succeeds Like Success
[blockquote cite=” -2001, A Space Odyssey” type=”left, center, right”]”There before him, a glittering toy no Star-Child could resist, floated the planet Earth with all its peoples.”[/blockquote] If you say the word “Success” to most people, it conjures up an image of a well dressed, smiling man receiving an award of some kind. But what is success? […]
Sharings from a Shopkeeper: Flakes – Pie Crusts and New Agers
A couple of long-time regular customers of our bookstore recently told me the story of how they met. Ten or so years ago one of them, Barbara in her 50’s at that time, in a love-the earth and God-is-in-all-things sort of mood was in Victoria Park in Regina one afternoon and approached this other person whom […]
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