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Skipping stones over life's pain

"Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!" Herman Melville Before you mistake me for a misanthrop

Watch out for deceivers

If I have learned anything about computers and life, it's this: if it's too good to be truewell, you know the restit's simply too good to be true.

Something which is known that we share with you

An atheist was blasting a preacher: "Eternal life? Pie in the sky! When I die that'll be it! Kaput! Gone! Dead! That will be the end of me!" "Well thank God for that," said the preacher. "An atheist is a man who believes himself to be an accident.

What song shall I sing?

This evening my son and I are going for a drive and a long talk. Let me preface the explanation by stating that I am not depressed, I simply want to have my end-of-life health care directives down on paper before the inevitable becomes the immediate.

Can it and keep it

This week there's been a lot of transforming and preserving done at our house. First it was a triple batch of rhubarb chutney followed by a double batch of rhubarb-strawberry jam.

UC Chimes: Evening news

Among the many different news programs each day, the evening program is the best one to watch. Because the evening news sums up the important things that have happened on that day, most people watch the evening news before they go to bed.

God's sign is still a rainbow in the clouds

We need to balance the pains, sorrows and afflictions of this life with God's abundant gifts. In a week when three courageous police officers lost their lives in Moncton, finding the rainbow in the clouds seemed difficult.

The power of dirt

If there is one thing that I enjoy doing, it's playing in the dirt. If truth be told I actually work hard at it but gardening gives me such pleasure I look upon it as a source of relaxation rather than of labour.

UC Chimes: Three places

One of my relatives used to say to me that his life was like living in a prison, a prison without walls. Now I can understand what he really meant. Actually everyone is living in their own prison, setting up fences around themselves.

Devotions to the Undoer of knots

Pope Francis addressed 25,000 couples on Valentine's Day with these words: "We all know the perfect family does not exist. The perfect husband does not exist, and the perfect wife does not exist.