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Quote of the Week
When parents talk about having a child who is ill or struggling, nonparents often take the wrong message. They think, Thank God I was spared all that pain. If I can’t order up the precise specifications for my child, the condition in which he emerges, the choices he’ll make, if I can’t be assured that he’ll skirt the dangers that await him, maybe it’s better not to have children at all.
Those of us who know the airless terror of the 10 steps between the second you first glimpse your child’s surgeon through the glass doors and the moment he’s standing in front of you, delivering the verdict—we don’t think this way. Each time one of ours is ill or in pain, we think, Thank God I am here for him.
Source: Abigail Shrier, The Free Press
Posted: 2025 Oct 10Music of the Week
Our politics probably vary, but I expect that we all hope for the hostages to come home, for all the killing to stop, and for a better life for all people in the region.
Photo Memory of the Week
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Category Archives: Photos of Flora
I’m Melting
Weather meets the Wicked Witch of the West. Continue reading
The Drum Roll, Please
An exciting announcement, on behalf of the Government of Canada. You heard it here first. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, New Perspectives, Officialdom, Photos of Flora
Tagged Community, Other Plants
6 Comments
Spring Flowers, Waterton Lakes & Glacier National Parks
In Spring, a young plant’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of seeds. Continue reading
Wildfire
Nothing is all good or all bad? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Flora, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Mountains, Trees
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Magnolia, Ottawa
Some years, I win. Continue reading
Palm Trees, El Paso
Texas palm trees. Continue reading
Ding Dong: Flower Delivery
Happy birthday, Dad. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Photos of Flora, Relationships and Behaviour
Tagged Death, Family, Flowers
7 Comments
Three Inches of Rain
Flash flooding reflections. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Flora
Tagged Desert, Water
2 Comments
A Different Walk
Water, water everywhere. Who put this lake here? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Flora, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Desert, Other Plants, Water
6 Comments