Apr

30

8 months down, 12 to go…

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[7 months… 6 months… 5 months… 4 months… 3 months… 2 months… 1 month]

dearest Nevis,
this feels a bit strange. writing my monthly letter from such a long-distance away. i miss you terribly and in many ways can’t wait to get back. absence truly has made the heart grow fonder. the morning […]

Apr

29

And I do love him, in stupid excess

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i always seem to write the most when i am reading the most. and for some reason, i seem to be blessed with the gift of reading books by writers who have something to say that i need to hear, just when i needed to hear it. i am addicted to quotes because […]

Apr

28

Don’t call Saskatchewan flat

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bahahaha. haha. HA!

Apr

27

Saskatoon road trip

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Janice drove. the sun was shining. we had tea and cookies with grandma. grandpa gave me his old medical textbooks. dad deep-fried a turkey. we went to see Jackie Chan’s latest kung fu masterpiece. i tried to sleep in. and then it was time to leave.
back in Moose […]

Apr

27

My grandparents

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“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”
~ Rudolph Giuliani
“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.”
~ Marcy DeMaree
i’d like to […]

Apr

26

North America sorta stinks

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~ Lord Byron: “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”

Apr

25

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

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[photo for Brandon because he didn’t know we* have a 32 ft/10 ton moose]
i didn’t go to high school here. i didn’t grow up here. but i did go to 4 months of bible college just west of here. and since my mom moved here quite a few years ago, it has […]

Apr

24

Mz. Madison

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[looking SO much like when she was a puppy]
for all of you Maddy fans out there, she is good. she is great! she was born in Saskatchewan and you’d think she never left.
she still looks for the biggest stick around. and mumbles under her breath at you on the couch when she […]

Apr

23

Sleeping on the top floor with the space heater

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a friend asked me in an email yesterday if i “managed to avoid the meltdown you (jokingly?) blogged about.”
no, i wasn’t joking.
and yes, so far so good.
i can’t say the coast is clear, but to be honest, i’m a bit bewildered. i’ve had a few days of emotional and physical downtime and am standing […]

Apr

21

Recovering harmony and proportion

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“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
~ […]

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