SIMPLE • EFFECTIVE • TRANSFORMATIVE

It’s a cockroach, a thing of such insignificant value and certainly not a thing I’d want hanging around me. In fact, I’d probably want to kill it even if I didn’t do the actual act. This creates a huge dilemma for my Buddhist friend, Tony. He doesn't want to share space with the roach either and has taken to killing them in the past. But that creates such guilt for him because his philosophy, like the Christian commandments, says something along the lines of ‘thou shall not k

Though we got up on time for that special day not much after that seemed to go well. We were in Ottawa for a medal ceremony and scheduled to fly home that night. Or so we thought. As I dressed to go out for breakfast Paul checked the flight information on his computer only to realize that he had mistakenly booked for the next day. Yikes! That wasn’t going to work for either of us. We decided to call the airline and change the flight, but after breakfast. Paul dressed and as w

People are so creative, so ingenious I think it’s inspiring. And I got a huge dose of inspiration last weekend right in my neighborhood. That’s one of the great things about where I currently live - there is always something going on. A regular feature is the Saturday morning farmers market and we will often go just to browse to see what’s new, have a pastry and chitchat with the neighbors we meet. Last Saturday we were treated to an art festival that was set up in the middle

On the weekend I saw the movie ‘The Butler’ after hearing rave reviews about it. While I found the story was quite predictable I thought the actors did a great job; but I left the movie theatre with a deep sense of sadness. The lives portrayed in the film seemed so hard, lacking in joy or with any love, and it’s been haunting me. It’s taken me a few days to figure out why this sadness has been hanging around. I think the sadness actually started before I went to the movie and