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    Apology & Analogy
    vilmablenman
    • Jul 27
    • 3 min

    Apology & Analogy

    At last. An apology—from the Pope himself, standing on Canadian soil, on First Nations grounds. And yet…so many questions still linger,...
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    Celebrate! It's Summer Solstice
    vilmablenman
    • Jun 21
    • 2 min

    Celebrate! It's Summer Solstice

    Celebrate it! Today, June 21st marks the summer solstice in our northern half of the hemisphere. It’s the longest day and night of light,...
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    Decisions, Decisions
    vilmablenman
    • May 24
    • 3 min

    Decisions, Decisions

    We make them daily—monumental or inconsequential, from the moment we awake. Get up now or five minutes from now? Do I have a quick bowl...
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    April--Arrival and Departure
    vilmablenman
    • Apr 18
    • 2 min

    April--Arrival and Departure

    In his ground-breaking post-war poem, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot argues: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead...
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    Lent--Loaned Time
    vilmablenman
    • Mar 16
    • 2 min

    Lent--Loaned Time

    Yes, it’s the simple past tense of “lend” but when capitalized, the word, “Lent” denotes a liturgical season—40 days preceding Easter....
    44 views2 comments
    My Black Church & Black Identity
    vilmablenman
    • Feb 8
    • 3 min

    My Black Church & Black Identity

    As another Black History Month rolls in and rolls on, I’m thinking of the forces that shaped my sense of Black identity, thinking of the...
    36 views1 comment
     Go for Goals!
    vilmablenman
    • Jan 4
    • 3 min

    Go for Goals!

    It’s Day 4 of 2022. How are you doing so far with your goals and resolutions? I’m asking you this not because I’m a goal-setting guru or...
    8 views1 comment
    Christmas Comes Again
    vilmablenman
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    Christmas Comes Again

    It’s another Covid Christmas with Omicron arriving just in time for the holidays. Oh dear. But despite the sobering reality of a pandemic...
    12 views1 comment
    Truth & Pain
    vilmablenman
    • Sep 30, 2021
    • 2 min

    Truth & Pain

    Today, the last day of September, the sunflowers bend their heavy heads, still pointed sunward. Today, the first National Truth and...
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    Canada Day or Crying Day?
    vilmablenman
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Canada Day or Crying Day?

    So, it’s Canada Day, and I don’t know what to say. What to say in the wake of the 215 remains found in unmarked graves at Kamloops Indian...
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    Summer Birthday--Bring It On!
    vilmablenman
    • Jun 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    Summer Birthday--Bring It On!

    Yes, it happened again—another birthday, last week in fact. But I must say, after 60 plus years, I’m getting used to birthdays. And I’m...
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    Take a Deep Breath
    vilmablenman
    • Apr 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Take a Deep Breath

    This week we held our breath for the George Floyd murder verdict. Seems like we've been holding breath for years, for many reasons:...
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    Holding Hope
    vilmablenman
    • Apr 23, 2021
    • 2 min

    Holding Hope

    Last Wednesday, I looked out across the backyard, past the wet fence, seeing only the milky morning sky and thinking: Another sunless day...
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    Take This Trip This Easter!
    vilmablenman
    • Mar 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    Take This Trip This Easter!

    Gethsemane Virtual Tour For Tired Pandemic Travelers This is the place, Gethsemane, an olive garden grove, much like your apple orchards...
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    Black History Month: BitterSweet
    vilmablenman
    • Feb 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    Black History Month: BitterSweet

    It was 25 years ago that Jean Augustine, the first Black female MP, stood up in Parliament and introduced a milestone motion: Declare...
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    Back To School in Covid Times?
    vilmablenman
    • Aug 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    Back To School in Covid Times?

    School will be a strange new world this September with Covid-19 still in the air.
    35 views1 comment
    Summer Reset for Mental Health
    vilmablenman
    • Jul 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    Summer Reset for Mental Health

    With the heat wave and patios opening, you’d think we are ready to wave goodbye to the pandemic and the anti-racist revolution.
    24 views1 comment
    Read my Canada Day-Inspired Poem: Lullaby for Olivier Le Jeune
    vilmablenman
    • Jul 5, 2020
    • 2 min

    Read my Canada Day-Inspired Poem: Lullaby for Olivier Le Jeune

    I want to sing for him, sing something his mother may have sung before she found him missing, sing to him as he lies cold.
    32 views1 comment
    Speak Right Words Right Now
    vilmablenman
    • Jun 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Speak Right Words Right Now

    Finding the right words for the uncomfortable conversations on race.
    203 views5 comments
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