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Just keep me where the light is and Easter thoughts

In John Mayer's "Gravity" I find some significant after Easter thoughts. "Just keep me where the light is" and other reflections that could "send me to my knees".

Wheatland Senior Centre news

The Wheatland Senior Centre holds weekly activities. The results of the senior centre activities from April 27 to May 3 are: Monday's Bridge play saw first place go to Jim Brown, with second to Basil Holyer, and third place to Jean Janoski.

Learning to say it better

If you ask for buzzwords in today's business world, you'll always hear the terms "networking" and "communication". This weekend I had the pleasure of attending a convention dedicated to both these concepts.

T.C. Douglas the 'Greatest Canadian'

Tommy Douglas. Premier of Saskatchewan. Father of Medicare. And now, the Greatest Canadian.

Ode to a tea towel

Yesterday as I undid the wooden pegs that held you to the clothes line I finally decided that this was the last time you'd know the thrill of flapping in the wind.

Dreaming of love and overcoming inertia

A man was addressing the pastor after the service: "You're in a rut, Reverend. Every time I come here you are preaching about the Resurrection." I woke up Good Friday morning dreaming of love.

UC Chimes: Identity and trinity

When I was a child, I used to play with three sticks. I would form them into a triangular shape that would stand upon the ground by itself. Three poles are the minimum required so that the shape could stand with no other assistance.

In a world interrupted by Jesus

Scangear application has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. I received this message from my scanner recently.

All together one

Before beginning my daily chores, I scan through the news in hopes that I might have escaped the usual reports of war, of suffering, of injustice and of grand-scale tragedies.

UC Chimes: Scars on the body

On a TV game show, women were required to identify their partner only by looking at the men's bare feet, with all the rest of their body fully covered.