Who Do You Listen To?
When you want to do something, whether it’s apply for a job, try out for a sports team or set a goal, who do you listen to? Do you let your friends tell you what you can or cannot do? Do you let your parents? Your…
Category World Issues
Dealing with the Cause…Not the Result…
I’ve read a few articles now which deal with this issue. The first was from Reader’s Digest and an interview with President Obama. They were asking him a lot of religious questions and one in particular, they asked him about abortion. He…
Some People Just Won’t Like You…
I’d like to introduce this post with an excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr’s speech titled “Love Your Enemies” on November 17, 1957. Now, I’m aware of the fact that some people will not like you, not because of something…
Those Who Are Always Difficult
We all know someone like this. You say how you read that something wasn’t great – but they say that the person who wrote that is an idiot. You say how you’re loving a song by a band – and…
Someone In Need
When you’re in a rush, would you stop to help someone else out? When you’re stuck in traffic late for work, would you stop and help someone change a flat tire? When you’re late for an appointment and someone gets…
All Work and No Play…
Do you ever get down and it seems to perpetuate and you wonder what’s going on with you, and then other people start to notice as well? Does it happen to correspond with a lack of exercise/eating properly? Funny how…
Believing in Something
I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, for the 2nd time, tonight. And wow. Although I knew the story line and what to expect, it still moved me. There are many levels to this movie and many things I could…
Remembrance Day – Please Take a Moment
Tuesday, November 11 is Remembrance Day in Canada. In case you forget why we take 2 minutes of silence to remember those who have died, watch this video and read the lyrics. The video/song is called A Pittance of Time, by…
Flanders Fields – John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We…
Movember – Help Support a Great Cause!
For the month of November, I will be growing a mustache and raising money for a charity called Movember that promotes the awareness of prostate cancer. Some fast facts about prostate cancer: Every year around 24,700 Canadian men are diagnosed with…