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Still Points

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  • Wide Spot: Just Standing
    January 18, 2023
    Years ago, not long after my father died, a friend of mine called in a favour. While I can’t even remember her name, I do […]
  • Wide Spot: Hope
    January 18, 2023
    Most people I know are loathe to speak of hope these days. They see the impacts of climate change and social inequities; they feel the […]
  • Wide Spot: Give Up
    January 18, 2023
    Some of my friends are just fine. They are doing exactly what they love, making music or mentoring younger people or hiking all over the […]
  • Wide Spot: Thumper’s Advice
    November 5, 2022
    Forget the death of Bambi’s mother. The scene that riveted me in the movie Bambi was dark, tense, everyone staring at the rude little rabbit who was […]
  • Wide Spot: Fair
    November 5, 2022
    Growing up number six in a family with eight kids, I put a great deal of stock in fairness. There was constant jockeying for my […]
  • Wide Spot: Traveling Mercies
    August 13, 2022
    Last weekend, in company with a large percentage of western Canada, we stopped in Revelstoke. It was a hot mess: trucks, boats, trailers everywhere; long […]
  • Wide Spot: Happy Now?
    August 13, 2022
     “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said. A whole lot of psychologists […]
  • Wide Spot: Both True
    August 13, 2022
    If I were to tell you the truth—the truth that I am barely willing to allow myself to know—I am almost always afraid. When I […]
  • Wide Spot: Garbage
    August 13, 2022
    I have a lovely neighbor who likes to believe that those beer cans by the roadside blew out of the back of someone’s truck on […]
  • Wide Spot: Hefted
    August 13, 2022
    In parts of rural Britain, sheep are said to be “hefted to the land.” After hundreds of years of being herded on common land, the […]

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