September 2009
21 posts
“Well Dad, I can still move it around alot so technically, my foot isn’t...”
– Noah Anderson, age 6. The context - jumping off of a ten foot high section of playground equipment within a fenced off area of a reclaimed quarry in Rochester, MN and hurting his foot.
On the arts and being a real man...
While visiting the Harden family I asked Thane (15) what he was reading at the moment. Turns out he’s reading some of the Patrick O’Brian novels, which for the uninitiated are largely set on English tallships in the time of the English-French and Spanish wars of the 19th century. If I’m wrong of the century history lovers, I pray your forgiveness. The time is not the point of...
“Swift Current, SK ‘Where Life Makes Sense’”
– Swift Current’s welcome sign. We almost moved there! A lovely river valley, trees in abundence, friendly people and life makes sense. Then we saw the same strip as everywhere else: McDonalds, A&W, Wendys, Burger King, 7-11. And let’s face it, none of those make any sense in this...
Sept 3... the modern and prehistoric
You’ll notice the blog will play a bit with chronology, a virtue of the fact that there is much to reflect on but not always time in the day (or access to WiFi).
So, one week ago today we left Banff, drove through Canmore (I like Canmore… all the beauty of Banff without taffy and tour buses) and out of the Rockies. Anyone that’s driven that stretch of highway knows how...
“What, did you think that the prophecies might not be true, just because you had...”
– Gandalf to Bilbo in the closing chapter of ‘The Hobbit’
… a lovely reminder that we are all of us caught up in something so much larger, and more grace filled than we ever quite fully know, even in our best moments…
“There’s nothing like looking if you’re trying to find something!”
– Thorin Oakenshield in JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
Good Friends
At present I’m (David) sitting in a large red chair in the family room of the Harden family, good friends formerly of Bowen Island and now living in Caronport, SK. It’s great to see them, three of the five are significantly taller than one year ago, and they are graciously hosting us for dinner. While burritos cook, I’m taking the opportunity to get online and update photos over...
Day One
September 1, 2009
A Rocha Canada BC Centre – White Lake (Salmon Arm)
Today, if we had been on Bowen Island Noah would have started 1st grade and Aidan 3rd grade. Instead, much to everyone’s satisfaction, we started our journey east.
Some highlights:
v Receiving the gift of so much help from friends on Bowen Island this past week: Thank you Riaan and Matthew for patching drywall, Saskia...
August 2009
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July 2009
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“The man to whom little is not enough, he will not benefit from more. He who...”
