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Friday, April 7th, 2017
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Saturday, December 31st, 2016
Happy New Year.
May the year ahead offer health, happiness, prosperity, purpose and fulfillment.
All the best, Wayne, Emily, Adryan and Wyatt
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Thursday, January 1st, 2015
Happy New Year everyone.
Please make it a good year. Be kind for the sake of kindness.
Be good for the sake of goodness.
Be honest, be careful, be fair, and be prepared to say sorry.
Be unafraid to make mistakes, ...
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Thursday, December 25th, 2014
As we allow individuals and private entities to control resources, we bring forward the day we will have little or no access.
This is an obscenity.
The misuse of public trust and resources by individuals and corporations is a world-wide and ongoing ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2014
Joan Emery is an artist from Georgian Bay.
For many years she has had an interest in art. She has been involved in Arts on the Bay since its start in 1991 and is a founding member.
For 17 ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2005
We talked about what was possible,doable and useful.
Should I fly to Canada?
Mom had died.
I had suspected as much after the first cryptic email. Or, to be more precise, I had an inkling of this after the first email and the ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
The day dawns inappropriately bright. Snow covers the ground and the way is icy.
We arrive at the church
I had not seen my mom in five years and this was not the way I'd wanted to see her again
She lay there ...
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