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Meeting someone even once can change your life. Here’s a story about one such encounter with a man who changed the way I saw myself – all in 30 minutes. I was cycling the first leg of a 250km trip from Jasper, Alberta to Canmore, Alberta, through the most stunning scenery in the world, the Read more
January 3, 2013 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust;” ancient words we’re not used to hearing these days. Ashes are dry, lifeless flakes of things once living and now dead. Christians are anointed with them on Ash Wednesday. In navigating the masculine journey, ashes are a symbolic reminder that many of our goals, dreams, and desires don’t turn Read more
March 8, 2012 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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For New Years, my sweetheart and I took a road trip to the Muskokas in Ontario. We had no plan, no reservations, no timetable to follow, except to see where we ended up. It was, as we called it, “our adventure.” The simple pleasure of asking, “You want to try that? You want to got Read more
January 9, 2012 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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You smell a familiar perfume From a girl you knew long ago On a holiday weekend And you know… That you’re there once more In some forgotten story From your private library Of things that you’ll remember Then it comes back again, those OLD EMOTIONS And it brings back, those OLD EMOTIONS ~ The Spoons, Read more
November 26, 2011 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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June 13th, 2011 was the 20th anniversary of the death of a friend of mine, Ken Bovey. Ken died at the age of 32 from scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease. This is the story of the last 10 months of Ken’s life. It is a story of how one man prepared for his own death. Read more
September 8, 2011 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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June 13th, 2011 was the 20th anniversary of the death of a friend of mine, Ken Bovey. Ken died at the age of 32 from scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease. This is the story of the last 10 months of Ken’s life. It is a story of how one man prepared for his own death. Read more
August 19, 2011 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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June 13th, 2011 was the 20th anniversary of the death of a friend of mine, Ken Bovey. Ken died at the age of 32 from scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease. This is the story of the last 10 months of Ken’s life. It is a story of how one man prepared for his own death. Read more
August 12, 2011 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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June 13th, 2011 was the 20th anniversary of the death of a friend of mine, Ken Bovey. Ken died at the age of 32 from scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease. This is the story of the last 10 months of Ken’s life. It is a story of how one man prepared for his own death. Read more
August 7, 2011 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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June 13th, 2011 was the 20th anniversary of the death of a friend of mine, Ken Bovey. Ken died at the age of 32 from scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease. This is the story of the last 10 months of Ken’s life. It is a story of how one man prepared for his own death. Read more
August 4, 2011 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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June 13th, 2011 was the 20th anniversary of the death of a friend of mine, Ken Bovey. Ken died at the age of 32 from scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease. This is the story of the last 10 months of Ken’s life. It is a story of how one man prepared for his own death. Read more
August 2, 2011 in Blog Post, Uncategorized by Patrick O'Connor
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