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After Christmas

After Christmas

This year, twice in the week before Christmas, our outdoor Christmas lights, which are set to go on at dusk, flashed on before ten in the morning and stayed on all day. It has been a dark, damp and cool December. The tension of this time broke as the days of Christmas...

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Up From the Deep

Up From the Deep

Last week, I saw a video on PBS, on the program Nature. It is also on YouTube and is named Befriending a Sperm Whale. We enter the story of Patrick Dykstra, a videographer, and a female sperm whale. We see them hanging vertically, face to face, in deep water. Patrick...

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Memories Past, Present and Future

Memories Past, Present and Future

A new year begins in September for many children and for all of us who love children and remember our own and our children’s September energy. There is movement coming. In Victoria, as I look over the Straits of Juan de Fuca towards the Olympic mountains in Washington...

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Holy Week into Easter

Holy Week into Easter

Spring arrived this week in Victoria where we live. It seems late because the cold grey winter months have dragged on. In fact, it is cooler and raining again today. Spring’s arrival seems sudden, but bright green foliage and pink branches carrying the running sap...

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After Christmas

After Christmas

Painting title: Hope for the Future. Original Artwork by Ingrid Hauss Christmas is, for me and for many, the most important festival of the church year. I call it The Feast of theIncarnation. Preparation for what will happen in the time from the beginning of Advent,...

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Dark and Light

Dark and Light

Photo by Dylan Katz from The University of Calgary Today is Remembrance Day, a day to honour our war dead and all those who have served inwar in pursuit of peace. It is a rainy day in Victoria with intervals of clear sunshine. Now that thesun is getting up later and...

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