Let heaven fill your thoughts: Sounds kind of pleasurable. It has that calming affect about it, not at all like the hurried stuff we see in the world today.
2016 has been a milestone year in my life and has seen an unprecedented amount of change brought to Manitoba.
My friends and family from Alberta periodically post some version of the line “if you’re against pipelines, go turn off your natural gas and see if you miss it.” or “if you’re against oil, better tune up your bike.”
The first gift you unwrap this Christmas season is one you should give yourself – a realistic Christmas budget that will keep you from overspending and getting hit with an avalanche of hard-to-pay bills long after the ‘spirit of the season’ has worn off and fiscal realities have returned.
This is my 15th Christmas article. For fear of being a total bore I went back over the articles since 2001 and read over them, hoping that I hadn’t been boorishly repetitive – thankfully, I wasn’t.
Regular readers of this blog will recall that I spent the first 20 years of my life in the Burwalde School District between Winkler and Morden.
The holidays are intended to be a season of joy, relaxation and laughter. Unfortunately, for many it is often a month of stress, fatigue, irritability, weight gain and digestive discomfort.
Walking through the malls and the stores it’s hard sometimes to see the resemblance of Christmas as it first began, in a manger in Bethlehem so many years ago.
It is appropriate that Donald Trump should be an ardent supporter of the fossil fuel industry. After all, who better than North America’s premier fantasist to promote an industry that has consistently indulged in such fantastic claims regarding its economic benefits?
If wonder is the foundation of all virtues, then gratitude is the mother of all virtues. You may struggle and struggle to be able to get a child to act good or responsible but if you can get them to be grateful, the rest follows.
