Archive for June, 2008

June 25th

Random Notes

Like everyone else in B.C., we received something in the mail today called a "Climate Action Dividend," or something along those lines. The name is unimportant. What matters is that this...
June 22nd

Cough, Sniff, Sneeze

I'm beginning to think that this cold that seems to be hanging on and hanging on may actually be allergies. We stopped in at the Aboriginal Day celebration at Fort George Park yesterday afternoon...
June 18th

Excellent Sermon on Original Sin

I've been down with a cold for the past couple of days, so there's not much to report, but of late I've been listening to a series of sermons by Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. The...
June 13th

Residential Schools Apology

After hearing and reading about the government's residential schools apology and speaking with a number of local natives about it, I finally had the opportunity to watch Stephen Harper's speech on...
June 8th

Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism

I've just found out that the good folks at www.spindleworks.com have recently made an excellent addition to their website - the first part of Rev. R. Stienstra's translation of S.G. DeGraaf's...
June 5th

Pinhole Pictures in the Gallery

Talk about "old school" - these pictures were taken by a wooden box, no lens, just stick the film inside, and open the manual wooden shutter. Here are some views of Prince George taken with the...

I got one more silver dollar...

... and it was designed by none other than Jason Bouwman of Compass Creative Studios in Burlington, Ontario! http://tinyurl.com/5e9d5m Congratulations, Jason! I hope they gave you a few...

On a Lighter Note...

... quite literally... The sun rose today at 4:43 AM (although it didn't wake me up until 6:30 when it snuck its way through the blinds in our bedroom and smacked me in the face). Sunset...
June 2nd

Last Week

Last Wednesday was "check day," popularly known as "Welfare Wednesday." Welfare Wednesday is a day of celebration and excitement, a day of joyful exuberance in which those less fortunate in our...