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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

I love the shadow play in this picture. It makes me think of time passing, minutes, hours, days and seasons.

The wood was used by my father when he worked on scaffolding. One of my brothers planed it, finished it and installed it in my home. I love having it as a reminder of the hard and creative work that my father was so good at. He was an excellent bricklayer and when he worked on a project he could “see” the finished product in 3D in his head. He understood exactly what steps needed to be done to get to the finish. I think he would have been a very good architect or engineer if he had had the opportunity. He was very good at math and he could see how something needed to be built and how the different aspects of a project came together.

What do you do to expand or develop your creativity? – Cris

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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

A picture of a button with the logo of the "Edmonton Oilers" hockey team, against a white background.

I have been an Edmonton Oilers fan since I started liking hockey, back in 1983. I watched the team lose 4 games straight to the New York Islanders in the Stanley Cup Final and have been a fan ever since. I’m Toronto born and it’s not that I disliked the Toronto Maple Leafs, it’s just that they were abysmal for most of the 1980’s. And the ’80’s was when I became a sports fanatic.

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