When Max’s wife asked me to lead her husband of 35 years Celebration of Life at their family farm I was elated. Yes! Yes, I thought this is exactly how it is supposed to happen!!! This farm was alive in itself with each barn board...
It has been said, and it is true, everyone you meet is struggling. Death and loss come in many different forms. It can be the straight up death of a loved one or it can be a loss of a job, or a divorce. It...
Paul started his journey holding on to his Momma’s apron strings for dear life until one day his spirit whispered in his ear, “Let go buddy, this time around is going to be a spicy ride.” Paul was blessed with velocity. In his youth, his...
........it’s the pain that everyone will feel once I am gone. My family is everything to me and it’s honestly like we are an appendage to one other. We are each other’s heart beats. We need and rely on each other in so many indescribable...
Jean made her way into the world along with her twin brother Jack on a blustery Winnipeg winters day in 1924. Eight other siblings completed the brood and within 5 years, along with their parents, they’d all board a train destined for Windsor, in search...
The word makes you shudder. The thought makes you cringe. It’s a Pavlovian response of pain when anyone comes in contact with the word funeral. Thank you for your service dear word but you are now dismissed….. Death is apart of life, just as birth is. ...