There can be a beautiful innocence in living through our teenage years, a kind of what you don’t know about life yet glow. I remember this phase of growing up myself. It was lovely, a time of now worries and lots of time to be a full on teenager. Not yet in the adult systems of life there was a type of simple freedom in my teenage hood. Though this is not true for all of us it … [Read more...]
Our First Christmas Without Jody – The Importance of Planning Together
Jody passed away May 5th, 1988 and I remember that first Christmas Season without her was looming large in front of me as if it were yesterday. I recall wondering what the heck we were going to do without her to celebrate one of her favorite times of the year. So, as a family, we started to talk about what we could do to include Jody in our Christmas celebrations. Though the … [Read more...]
The Problem With Death… We Have Forgotten Who We Truly Are!
“Death has its own beauty, as does living. Death has its own poetry; one just has to learn its language, and one has to live in its depth. Then out of sadness itself comes a new kind of joy – which looks almost impossible, but it happens, I have known it.” Bagwan Shree Rajneesh – Death the Greatest Ficton It is hard to understand this amazing piece of … [Read more...]
A Beautiful Sunset
I was travelling home from Kamloops, BC Sunday past driving westward towards the ocean. As I turned a corner on highway 1 that opened into the Fraser Valley a little east of Chilliwack I was witness to one of the most beautiful sunsets I have seen in many years. The near full moon was on the rise over the coastal mountains that introduced Chilliwack. The colors in the … [Read more...]
Death and Sex The Taboo Twins
I was wondering this morning why sex and death are two of North America’s greatest taboos. It came to me that they are two events that have the potential to free us from our human body even if only temporarily, a frightening thought for we mere mortals. When we look at these two topics and wonder why we have made them so taboo there are some answers. Yes there has been some … [Read more...]