I listened to a Podcast series of CBC Radio’s Ideas in December. It was an interview with philosopher Richard Kearney about his recent book “The God Who May Be.” I was intrigued by several of the concepts that Kearney brought up. He proposes that much of the beliefs that people hold about who God is … [Read more…]
In October ’06, Lorne and his family gave Mariah a tupperware full of chocolate bars for Amber and I. Unfortunately, Mariah didn’t have enough room for it among her luggage as she was moving here for a year. Her sister gave us the goodies once we returned to Canada for our Christmas furlough. In January … [Read more…]
I’m picking up a short term mission team in Guatemala City tonight. They arrive late, so we spend the night and then visit a couple sites in the capital then drive the 4 hours to Tactic tomorrow. Les isn’t here, so I have to do all the paying for the 19 of us in the … [Read more…]
Amber, Blaise and I are applying for Guatemalan residency. This is a lengthy process that I will enter into once I actually understand it. Yesterday, I received an email from our lawyer in Guatemala City that we had an appointment on Feb 1 at 8:30 AM at immigration. For this meeting we needed our passports … [Read more…]
I can still remember Miss Fitch in grade 4 telling my class to sit up straight and not to slouch. If only I had obeyed! Now I have a distinct cromagnon angle for my neck and I’ve lost perhaps 2 inches of visible height (which isn’t all that necessary in Guatemala, but still…). I just … [Read more…]
On Sunday, January 7, I garnered permission to use the conference room at Red Willow for a public presentation of my film. I had invited everyone I knew in the area and so I was expecting based on responses from people about 30-40 people. In the end 50 people showed up. I was just short … [Read more…]
Last April, while a group from Calgary were helping us construct a new school in Mocohan, accross the field a group of seniors from a Vancouver public high school were inaugurating a project they had spent 5 days working on. Their project was a communal chicken coop for women of the community to raise chickens … [Read more…]
One of the things I really miss in Guatemala is being able to communicate on a deeper level, in my most comfortable language, with people whom I have a shared history and culture. So being back in Canada allowed me to visit with some very good friends. I wish I had more time to share … [Read more…]
Eating. The Joy. While we were in Canada, people fed us as though we hadn’t eaten since we left 15 months earlier. It was great! (We only ate out twice from what I can recall) Being the guest, I was prodded over and over to have seconds and thirds. I didn’t mind so much. I … [Read more…]
Somehow I ended up signing up for a MySpace account so that I could visit some friends’ spaces. I already have a website and this blog, so why would I need to invest any time in a MySpace, so I just state that people should go to my website or blog. Something really bothers me … [Read more…]