Carol Wiebe

Who has been the kindling that keeps the flame burning within you? Remembering, and giving credit to, those who have contributed to your inspiration, your learning, your success, helps to keep the flame burning. Those who take all the credit, for anything, are already sputtering. When they turn to ashes, few will notice. Few will have been involved enough to notice. What you want is a blaze, and that takes a LOT of fire power. Join forces, creatively, and watch the sparks fly

I am always anticipating miracles, she announced. One of his eyebrows raised slightly. What do you mean? You know, happenings that can’t be explained by the rational mind. He couldn’t read her look. What other kind of mind is there? He wondered if the air of mystery that had first attracted him was really a psychological condition about to erupt. Oh, c’mon, she chided him. Do I really have to spell it out for you? Love, is a miracle. Sunshine dappling the sidewalk through the

I didn’t have much money, but I had time and a sense of wonder. …………~ Louie Schwartzberg #BrotherDavidSteindl #gratitude #LouieSchwartzberg

Wikipedia offers a succinct synopsis, as well as plenty of information about the film and actor Roberto Benigni, who directed and co-wrote it. He played Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian, who made use of his fertile imagination to help his family survive internment in a Nazi concentration camp. Benigni’s acceptance at the Oscars for Best Actor (won because of this film) is something to behold, and he received it from Sophia Loren’s hand, no less. He was fabulous: no holds barre

This is from a beautiful little children’s book,  Grateful: A Song Of Giving Thanks, by John Bucchinno. I’ve got a roof over my head, I’ve got a warm place to sleep, Some nights I lie awake counting gifts, Instead of counting sheep. If you lie awake tonight, may you count your gifts and blessings, even if it keeps you up for hours! The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon h

My son was lucky enough to get tickets to the Leonard Cohen concert when Cohen came to Kitchener this June. The man is more than a legend. As Robert Reid wrote, for the Kitchener Record, I'm Your Man “[H}is charisma is not the result of fashion, sex appeal or even force of personality. It’s a form of grace, a gift with appeal that transcends mere attractiveness. After each song, and in response to thunderous applause and regular standing ovations, the Monk of Rock offered his