July was everything. It wounded me, warmed me, overwhelmed me. Everything that could have happened, did happen. There was a family reunion. There was Deer Lake. There was this crazy awesome group of people—I call them team members, therapists, friends—who impacted my world in ways I didn’t expect. There was beauty. There were sunsets. Children. […]
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That’s us by the Cessna in the feature photo above (email readers will need to click through to the blog), ready to take flight for Deer Lake. This is my fourth year of traveling to Deer Lake, a reserve of around a thousand people in northern Ontario, to help with summer Bible school. This year, we had
It’s called Exploring The World of Chemistry: From Ancient Metals to High Speed Computers, by John Hudson Tiner. It tells the story of chemistry’s development. And it’s written with the level of simplicity I need in order to (sorta) understand such complex subjects as alpha particles and spectroscopes and just why it is that inert
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What does this picture make you think of? It makes me remember one of my favorite children’s books, the one that has the repeated line, “No more monkeys jumping on the bed!” Anyone else love that story? This picture also makes a tiny three letter word run through my mind. Joy. Joy is my middle
So, Chicago doesn’t really stink, at least not where I was. But one of the many interesting facts I learned during my weekend visit is that “Chicago” is thought to be a derivative of a Native American word meaning “smelly onion.” I went to Chicago to visit my friend Naomi, who is there for the
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