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  1. Laurie
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    What a great post, and the CanoeHead picture is wonderful, perhaps award-winning… made me laugh out loud and want to understand physics more to understand how it is possible to do such a thing.

    I’m so glad you went on the trip, and that we can depend on your reliability and followthrough to help protect you from too much ‘muchness’. I know in my experience the mind is diabolically good at creating a vortex within which normal thought and right-sized reflections of ourselves are impossible.

    I went to an Anglican service – make that TWO – yesterday after seeing Bishop Melissa Skelton host a discussion with five local artists on ‘Spirituality in Art’ and leaving so impressed at the depth of the conversation.

    As I was leaving the church after the first service (the Super Sunday Steroid Seniors Service, a brisk 45 minute liturgical workout) I heard the most gorgeous trumpet solo and felt compelled to return to the pews ‘just to hear the music’. Instead found myself being drawn in for the second time that morning into reflection, a sense of spiritual peacefulness, and profound gratitude for both the content of the morning and the company in which I encountered it.

    Normally my Sunday reflection is simply sleeping in, a practice that has amply satisfied me (or so I thought) for so long, followed up with coffee and reading of the Saturday Globe and Mail, full as it is of not only rich cultural content but a smorgasbord of woe from around the world as accompaniment.

    What a difference, and what a reminder of the need for careful tending of my soul’s garden so that it can sustain me on those dark days that march – like dispassionate armies of grim certainty – through me like the moon follows the sun.

    I can’t wait to read your article from this trip and see the photos, and feel you present and shimmering like the golden soul you are, knowing the burnishing of sadnesses are adding to the light you shine into the world.

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  2. Shaun
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    Sorry to hear about your friend but glad you went on the trip. It’s truly amazing how travel can heal seemingly unhealable wounds.

    Thanks for sharing

    Shaun
    www.thislifeintrips.com

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