Category: Retirement

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  Harvest Moon

  It’s the season of Autumn when the legendary Harvest Moon turns and burns bright orange in the southern sky – September 19…

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  Deerbank Farm

  It is a glorious winter morning in Manitoba. The sun rose far south of where it comes up in summer. The wind…

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  Aches and Pains

  I vowed long ago that I would never, in old age, bore friends with talk of my aches and pains and doctor…

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  Fall Supper

  I went to a Fall Supper in the Community Hall of Dominion City one Sunday evening a few years back. Dominion City…

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  Gig At Elmwood MB

  I played a gig one Sunday afternoon in the Elmwood MB Church of Winnipeg where I grew up. I sat one Sunday…

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  My 83rd Birthday

  At 83, I can still think and walk. What a wonder! Two or three generations ago people died in their 50s and…

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  Garage Cleaning

  Cleaning the garage was one of my greatest challenges because there were memories I had to let go. It was not just…

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  John Coltrane

  We went on a modern-day pilgrimage to the church of St John Coltrane on Fillmore Street in San Francisco one mid-August Sunday.…

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  Ste. Elizabeth

  Life on Deerbank Farm near Morris, a prairie town of 3,000 in the middle of Canada, is vastly different than it was…