Musings from the Deep

Friendship

  • Where are All the People

    While rereading an old entry from Musings from the Deep, written in July of 2008, I found myself smiling at a simple sentence. “Come! The fruit market has just opened and the price is right. They only cost the time… Continue reading

    Where are All the People

  • Extra Potatoes

    If A Bucket Full of Honey was one lesson in radical hospitality, this is another. Once again, the setting was winter. Once again, Highway 17 had been closed by one of those legendary North Shore storms that seem determined to… Continue reading

  • A Bucket Full of Honey

    This morning at church we listened to an inspiring sermon by Rev. Robert Shearer of Victoria, British Columbia. His message, based on Genesis 18:1–15, reflected on hospitality—radical hospitality, the kind that welcomes the stranger without first asking who they are… Continue reading

  • A Gift at 7:30 in the Morning

    Teachers seldom see the harvest. That may sound strange coming from someone who spent more than thirty years in education, but it is true. Teachers plant seeds, encourage growth, celebrate small successes, and then watch their students move on. Most… Continue reading

  • The Crosses Beyond the Rock Cut

    When I was a boy growing up in Marathon, Ontario, my friends and I spent much of our free time exploring the shoreline of Lake Superior. There were countless paths leading to favourite places. One of them followed the Canadian… Continue reading

  • The Sound of Learning

    This afternoon I spent several hours in the church with a friend. At least, that’s how I think of him now. A lifetime ago he was my student. Don had agreed to help me experiment with the church sound system.… Continue reading

  • The Sixties Scoop…

    My wife and I are the parents of an adopted First Nations child. Her adoption took place during what is now known as the Sixties Scoop. At the time, we did not understand what that meant. Over the years, we… Continue reading

  • So, You’re Electing a President…

    It seem months have gone by with Canadian news stories about the upcoming Presidential elections in the USA. The fact is we have almost as much coverage of the American electoral system as we do the Canadian system at election… Continue reading

  • Back to Swimming…

    About mid-February I caught a cold. It wasn’t one of those stick around for a week-or-two then get back to your life type colds. This one caught and stuck and never completely let go of me until May. The most… Continue reading

  • Just fiddling around…

    Foot stomping, toe tapping, hand clapping music filled the air last night. The Scott Woods Band (http://www.scottwoods.ca/) was in town and performed a grand concert that took me back to my years of listening to the raido on Sarurday or… Continue reading