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Colleen Green
Sep 15, 20223 min read
The heart of a child
I’m sitting here in my living room at home after watching program after program reporting on the passing of Our Wonderful Lady,...
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Colleen Green
Aug 19, 20224 min read
What do you expect to find in your day?
When you wake up each morning, what is it that preoccupies your thoughts? Does the business of yesterday sweep back in, flooding you with...
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Colleen Green
Aug 11, 20223 min read
The Widow’s Might!
The tight fist: can express anger, defiance, or fear of letting go. Sometimes, the latter can be because of a desire for control over...
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Colleen Green
Jun 23, 20224 min read
Editorial: Sister Holy
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Colleen Green
Jun 9, 20224 min read
Cleaning up
Every year we go through a rite of cleaning out the junk, the build-up of unnecessary things, stuff we deemed needful in moments or even...
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Colleen Green
Apr 14, 20225 min read
What can be said?
Times come, and then they go. The shifting of sands amidst the rolling of the tides. What has been deposited upon your shore this Easter...
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Colleen Green
Mar 10, 20224 min read
The Substance of Resilience
I’m sure everybody is aware of the war in Ukraine and how stubborn President Putin is being, regarding what he is attempting. His claim...
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Colleen Green
Feb 10, 20223 min read
There are those…
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Colleen Green
Jan 27, 20224 min read
Staying Open
I’m sure most of us would prefer the economy and our society stay open. No more yo-yo effect from closing of public spaces, or the...
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Colleen Green
Jan 13, 20223 min read
Celebrating stories of Ontarians: Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers Recipient – Major (Retired)
From his early years in rural Kenya in the 1940s and ‘50s, living in villages without plumbing or electricity, Kanwal Sethi came to know...
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Colleen Green
Jan 6, 20223 min read
12 Ways to take with us
There is a fun song, sung around Christmas time, which, early on, was used as a mnemonic device for various subjects. This song is ‘The...
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Colleen Green
Dec 22, 20212 min read
With Blessings on our Face
Verse 1 There is a place that’s open, to everyone who will, a table covered waiting there, for every wound or ill. It’s filled with...
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Colleen Green
Dec 9, 20212 min read
What is a present?
What is a present? by The Standard | December 9th, 2021 Podcast https://thestandardnewspaper.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Editorial-Pres...
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Colleen Green
Nov 25, 20215 min read
Life taking care of life
The central Christian celebration of Christmas is approaching fast. In our family, it starts on December 7th, for the Hungarian time of...
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Colleen Green
Nov 11, 20214 min read
Remembrance and Thanksgiving
The faculty we have to recall the past, to reflect on its meanings to us, to enter into the feelings this invokes, and then bathe, partly...
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Colleen Green
Oct 21, 20214 min read
Thankfulness
Thankfulness. To be full of thanks, what a thing. If any one of us takes the time to reflect, we really can find things to be glad for in...
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Colleen Green
Oct 7, 20214 min read
SEason of thanksgiving – what goes around comes around remember
So many good things have transpired as of late, by way of recognition, and remembrance I could hardly keep up, and I am thankful for...
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Colleen Green
Sep 2, 20214 min read
The Mud Between Our Toes
Do you remember the sheer joy of jumping in a nice puddle of muddy water when you were little? I do, with relish of thought and warmth....
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Colleen Green
Jul 30, 20214 min read
Editorial: The good Life
I’m so pleased that people have been sharing their opinion about a recent editorial in The Standard. This is what a newspaper is about:...
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