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Rough Nights Last night I put a little candle on a cedar sheet, lit it, and with my two most important intentions for the coming year I let it float down the river to the sea. There they went, my wishes, dancing on the current until they disappeared around the bend of...

Talk With the Baby! As my second granddaughter is on her way, quite naturally I often ponder about unborn babies and their journey into life. When a new baby comes from the Spirit world to Earth, the first touch with the world is his/her mother's placenta. The...

Masks A man is walking along the sidewalk of our town with a scary red devil’s mask and little horns on his head. It is Halloween, a great time to wear a mask, to explore how it feels to slip into a different identity. I took a deep breath and gave a sigh of relief...

The Secret of Gold I am holding in my hands a tiny glass vial, and when I turn it, a fine yellow dust is shining. Gold. 0.29 grams, the result of a week of gold panning. A couple of weeks ago I was with a friend on a canoe trip in an old gold rush area in Northern BC....

Remembering Yourself? When I experienced Remembrance Day in Canada for the first time, I had a huge sense of relief. Back in Germany, the men who had fought in the war came home sick and wounded in body and soul. What was even worse was that they had given all they...

Heroes and Runny Noses “I thought you were teasing me! I was sneezing and had a runny nose because of my hay fever, and you gave me a remedy of an onion! But it worked, I am amazed.” This is what a patient told me while laughing when he came for a follow-up...

Butterfly Medicine Ever Heard about Butterfly Medicine? Today I walked our dog Brodie in the woods. In a sunny spot on a Bitter Cherry bush, there was an Admiral butterfly sitting. To be exact, it was a Lorquin’s Admiral which is one of the beautiful butterflies...

Autism – A Modern Epidemic Imagine living in 1918. No internet, no cell-phone, no high tech medicine. It was the day of the door to door doctor. In 1918 the notorious flu spread around the world. In a matter of months as many as 50 million died. Many healthy young...

My Grandfather's Truth About Ending War My grandpa was the most loving man you can ever imagine. After having experienced WW1 and WW2 and the terror of the Nazi regime, his love was drenched in sadness. As a little boy I soaked up the despair that was expressed in the...

Half Life of Truth? Have you ever wondered what "half life" means? In physics the half life of a substance is defined as the time that it takes for half of the original substance being decayed and half of it being left. For example, the Technetium isotope 99m is...

Springtime and Allergies It feels like springtime here in Victoria. The daffodils and crocuses are blooming. And with the alder blossoms and other pollens, many people start sneezing. Are you allergic to anything? Do you know what the solution for allergies is? You’ll...

The Eagle's Gift A few days ago I wrote about the last Nature Walk. I have been pondering about the experience with the hunting eagle since then. I could enjoy the sight as a natural phenomenon and be happy with that. Then it would be merely an outer event. However,...