December
We spent most of December in various stages of quarantine. Covid struck our church hard, taking two elders. We were fortunate to be vaccinated and have something a bit worse than a cold, but nearly as bad as we’ve had the flu. The kids had a very unusual loss of appetite, but otherwise were unfazed…
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About a Week in Canada!
It’s been about a week since we arrived in Canada, and things are just starting to settle down a bit, including the kids. (Except that as I write this we are being attacked by Nerf darts.) Traveling We survived the drive remarkably well. We left Pennsylvania at 5 am Saturday the 3rd of July and…
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What about Your Kids?
One of the questions we are asked most when we share our plans is, “what about your kids?” Sometimes the question seems to go deeper than “what about school?” or “do they want to go?” Sometimes it sounds more like, “why would you take your family THERE?” To which we would say, “what about…
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Seven Fallen Feathers
This painting, which shares its name with a book by Tanya Talaga, is by the Ojibwe artist Christian Morrisseau. His son Kyle is among the Seven Fallen Feathers, seven indigenous high school students who lost their lives in Thunder Bay between 2000 and 2011. The public schools in many remote communities do not go past…
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Residential School
Jeff came home from work the other day, where he listens to podcasts for background noise, and said, “we should watch this video of an interview with a First Nations woman. When she was four and a half she was taken with her eight year old brother by the Indian Agent from her front yard…
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