Mar 17, 2008 | Essays
– Hold On To Your Hats – written for ‘Down to Earth – Guide to Organics in Manitoba. Every night as my family heads up to the TV room to load up on the latest war news, I pull out a book I’ve been reading called ‘Natural Capitalism’ by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L....
Oct 17, 2007 | Essays
– Submitted to CBC’s Search for the 7 Wonders of Canada There’s a rise of land in southwest Manitoba that embodies the understated greatness of Canada. We can take back-roads lined by 100 year-old oaks up to Lake William – watching for moose, elk and...
Aug 23, 2007 | Essays
how is it i ask with thirty years of hindsight and four indulged and clammering children round our own that when we gathered everyone who mattered from the final hymn and handshake we the pride and joy the blessings and the stuff of dreams for their abundant lives...
Oct 17, 2006 | Essays
for the 2006 Boissevain-Morton history book The timing couldn’t have been better. Magdalene and I had just settled our family into the community after returning from 10 years with Mennonite Central Committee (8 in Africa and 2 in Saskatoon) when the Boissevain...
Sep 17, 2006 | Essays
(written in 2006 for the new Boissevain-Morton history book) Eighty years ago our grandparent’s Gerhard and Helena Neufeld stepped off the train at Whitewater. They arrived with fifteen family members including parents and siblings in the middle of winter (January 25,...
Jun 2, 2006 | Essays
A letter to Eli on his 13th birthday Do you remember the day we watched a tornado go past our place? You must have been about 8 when you and your family came to stay with us for a few months that spring. I believe my family was in school the day of the threatening...
Mar 17, 2006 | Essays
for the 2006 Boissevain-Morton history book Perhaps it was the poetry I read to her on the train travelling from Waterloo (where we were attending University) to Toronto (where I was catching a plane to go to South Africa) that convinced her on the benefits of...
Dec 17, 2004 | Essays
– Letter to the Editor of Farmer’s Independent Weekly – Dec. 04 Shayne Murphy, in your letter to the editor in the 02 Dec issue, you ask the question: “. . . what other alternatives (to GMO seed development) are being offered to satisfy the increased demand for...
Oct 17, 2004 | Essays
– for a Gala Supper cosponsored by Organic Food Council of MB and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at Hotel Fort Garry, Fall ’04 Thank-you, for being part of a community that seeks to support local food and local music. I’ll begin with an assumption; in the...
Jan 17, 2003 | Essays
– letter to friends regarding a rich experience This past month I’ve had the privilege of standing with the people of Grassy Narrows at their logging road barricade. This letter is partly about my need to tell you what I see happening there and partly to let you know...
