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Happy Thanksgiving
Ah, American Thanksgiving, that day where Canadians wish they’d saved their Thanksgiving for today, and envy the genius of making it a 2-day holiday! Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends to the south! “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,” that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart
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This is Fall, Enjoy it Now!
There’s a certain urgency about the autumn season this year. As summer has slowly given way to fall (which means that winter is closing in), we’ve started to cherish every family walk, each crisp morning and every sunny day that lets us carve away at our yard work to-do list. Olivia loves playing outside and…
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Tractor Trek 2011
Tractor Trek 2011 from Joel Wiebe on Vimeo. Last weekend I had the chance to drive a tractor for the first time! It wasn’t any tractor either, it was the tractor that my great-grandpa bought in 1945, right after the war (my grandpa notes that due to the war rubber wasn’t available, so it was…
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Food Inc.
This weekend we watched Food Inc., a documentary which examines corporate farming in the USA and concludes that the food industry often is putting profits ahead of consumer health and the livelihood of farmers. I think most people agree that, looking at rising obesity and diabetes rates etc, there’s a problem with the way we…
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Postcards from Schiermonnikoog
Greetings from Holland! We spent the past weekend with (most of) Anna’s family on Schiermonnikoog, a small island off the coast of Holland in the North Sea. The island is a protected nature reserve, home to about 1000 people and thousands of birds, whose beaches are wide and streets virtually car-less. We rented bikes as…
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The Flight Brochure
One important parts of day is my space “in the margins” during my walk to and from home each day. Lately on the walk I’ve been listening to Patrick Dodson‘s podcasts on Identity (you should check them out here!). In these workshop sessions he says that while most of us make decisions about who we…
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My Accidental New Year’s Resolution
One year ago I accidentally made a new year’s resolution. I had considered blogging for a while, and had had a couple unsuccessful starts at it. Finally one night I decided, “now I’m gonna do this.” As I logged in I noticed the date, and it happened to be Jan 1! So with a short…
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Merry Christmas!
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Our First Christmas Tree
This year, for the first time since we got married we’re not traveling out of the country for Christmas, so we were able to justify getting a Christmas tree. Anna’s been looking forward to this for at least the last year. Of course this is also Olivia’s first Christmas. For the occasion we decided to…
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Giving Gifts
The Christmas season is upon us, and while there’s so much to enjoy about this month, it took only one short shopping trip yesterday (among the throngs of other shoppers) to be reminded of everything that makes me excited for this month to be over. Everything surrounding Christmas gift-giving has always made me uncomfortable. At…