Opinion

“He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff…” — Mark 6:7-13

Mancala is a diverse family of games of which Bao is one of the better known.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting fed up with writing about all the depressing doom and gloom going on in the world. I am depressed about writing about residential school unmarked graves. I am sick of writing about forest fires.

Ministerial Message

Years ago, composting was a word that was relatively unknown. Today, as we make our salads or clean and prepare garden vegetables, we know that throwing out what is not edible is unacceptable. Composting behaviours by Canadians have been increasing.

Heritage Day was always spent with my dad. He’d put on his best cowboy hat and we’d drive to Weaver Park in Lloydminster, where we’d spend the afternoon looking at exhibits from a bygone era.

This morning I did not see myself in the mirror, but I knew no matter how I appeared to others I was wrestling with an unfair attitude towards another person.

The moon and Uranus are just 1.8 degrees apart Aug. 1. Look in the northeast before dawn, near the Pleiades, which are just to the east of the pair. New moon is Aug. 8 (Lunation 1220). Aug. 10, the thin crescent of a 2.

During these weeks of oppressive heat, one of my favourite places to sit and relax is on a lawn chair situated under our back deck.

Back in the 1700s a man named Samuel Johnson said: “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.