Here is a piece of writing I have been working on in my own life for sometime now… thought I would share it… Is Happiness the Appropriate Goal? I Will Be Happy When… In my own life and also in the lives of the people I know and folks I work with I often hear things like; • “I’ll be happy when my mortgage is paid off.” • “I’d be happier if I made a bit more money.” • “I will be … [Read more...]
Surviving Cancer and Loosing Our Youthful Innocence
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...]