Between Christmas and New Year’s Day resolutions seem to be on many minds. For more years than I care to reveal, my chief New Year’s Resolution was to begin a diet and fitness routine. If success could be measured in adhering to the semantics alone I would be able to say I was successful because [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Making Those Dreaded New Year’s Resolutions
Posted in Writing, tagged Failure, Intentions, New Year's Resolutions, Writing on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Chilly Christmas Morning
Posted in Christmas, Environment, Winter, tagged Christmas, Snow, Winter on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On this Christmas Day may God open
your heart to his love…
your mind to his wonders…
your ears to his voice…
your life to his presence.
‘Tis Christmas
Posted in Christmas, Winter, tagged Blessings, Christmas, Snow on December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On this snowy Christmas Eve I offer my warmest good wishes for a joy-filled Christmas and a New Year rich with blessings.
Winter arrives on Christmas Sunday
Posted in Christmas, Family, Religion, Winter, tagged Christmas, Winter on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wind whips snow into a bone-chilling frenzy and as the driveway disappears into drifts it’s questionable if we’ll make it out to church for the Christmas Sunday service. I can’t imagine not being there. With rare exceptions we attend church every Sunday but somehow the Christmas Sunday service is an inseparable part of our holiday [...]
Winter Metamorphosis
Posted in Environment, Seasons, Winter, tagged BC, Colours, Nature, Winter on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Long rays of late afternoon sunlight slant through snow-frosted trees behind our house. Frigid temperatures have already arrived although winter is still officially two days away.
There’s something about colours on a clear winter day that defies logic. Skies aren’t just blue, they’re a vivid azure. Evergreen trees change colour and become a blackened shade closer [...]
The Banana Belt Goes South for the Winter
Posted in Environment, Winter, tagged Gardening, Winter on December 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been gardening this afternoon. Yes, I know it’s mid-December, but with snapdragons and chrysanthemums only now beginning to look pathetic, a sunny and relatively mild day here in southwestern B.C. couldn’t be wasted.
The last bit of my pre-winter yard work is finally done, and just in time. I’m told snow is in the forecast [...]
Guilty Pleasure
Posted in Environment, tagged Birdfeeder, birds on December 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The dead and rain-sodden body of a tiny chickadee lays on our deck beneath the kitchen windows. He evidently misjudged his route between the birdfeeder and the nearby trees and collided with the glass. It happens so seldom, but whenever it does I have the urge to stand in the window like a scarecrow for [...]
Tenacity despite the odds
Posted in Writing, tagged Albert Einstein, Goals, Jeneece Edroff, Perseverence, Terry Fox, Writing on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“If you will it, it is not a dream.” That’s such a crappy platitude! It suggests we can achieve anything if we want it badly enough but reality shouts otherwise. There are some circumstances we simply can’t change. Does that mean we shouldn’t try?
Consider Terry Fox* and Jeneece Edroff**. Consider Albert Einstein***. Each faced significant [...]
This is Canadian Democracy?
Posted in Politics, tagged Democracy, Frustration, Opposition Party Coalition, Politics on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t do political rants. I don’t. But today’s antics by our Canadian government have me so frustrated and angry I want to scream and beat my head against a wall!
I can’t believe the man who was rejected by voters just six weeks ago, the man defeated so profoundly that he has to step down [...]
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