The Epistle of Q — Chapter Forty-Nine (postscript)

Where are some other good articles on this question? Look up the National Post, Saturday August 5th — Volume 19, No. 234 and check out the columns by Rex Murphy, Conrad Black, Robert Fulford, Charles Krauthammer, and Christie Blatchford. Actually even Colby Cosh is good too. And this is all in the first section (A). […]

The Epistle of Q — Chapter Forty-Nine (cont’d)

What else is part of this perplexing question of how to “get to better”? During my college days I spent eighteen months in graduate school in the USA (obtained an M.A. in Education and Social Reform). It was an interesting time. One afternoon, three of us, all with theological roots (former Jesuit, Anglican deacon, Presbyterian […]

The Letter of Q — Chapter Forty-Nine

How have we come to see ourselves as perfect? What really has happened to the revolutions of the sixties? What have the boomers who came after us, really accomplished? How have we come to a point in our human existence when the Alt-Right gains condemnations and the Alt-Left not even consternation? I am becoming puzzled […]

As an aside…with thanks to Rod McKuen

Not sure this is really worthy Of the muse I thank today… But read it in the spirit Of however love comes your way… It was only a poem Not one to even memorize But it had a lasting phrase Like winning some kind of prize the voice seemed David Jansen’s the words certainly not […]

The Letter of Q — Chapter Forty-Eight

And what do you do on Sunday, after listening to a great sermon? Well, first of all, you thank the minister: Thank you, Doug Rollwage, the service was truncated, only the sermon — but it was a very inspiring one on the need for and value of prayer… For those interested, you can find it […]

The Epistle of Q — Chapter Forty-Seven

What is the answer to the question — what is an Okanagan Kitchen Party? Well, there are few old-style farm houses in the Valley anymore and there are even fewer big farm kitchens. So one needs to look elsewhere. And tonight I found it, almost accidentally. A daughter of my best friend had invited me […]

The Epistle of Q — Chapter Forty-Six

Just where have I been these last two weeks or so? Good question — and it’s been hard to see me because of all the smoke! And yet where there’s smoke, there isn’t necessarily fire. Our Valley has been spared any big fire, thankfully, although there have been some small ones, caused by humans, that […]