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    HOW WE MET

    Kara & Wyatt Kara and Wyatt met in 2016 and married one year later.  Both in their late 50s at t ...

    Kara & Wyatt Kara and Wyatt met in 2016 and married one year later.  Both in their late 50s at the time, life gave them a second chance at love, and they took it.   Each had tragically l ...

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    HOW WE MET

    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland i ...

    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland in 1959 with her family, she didn’t know that Willem, a young Dutch engineer had also arrived in ...

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    HOW WE MET

    JANE & BRENTMost people can recall their first love. I never forgot mine. It was a sunny spring day i ...

    JANE & BRENTMost people can recall their first love. I never forgot mine. It was a sunny spring day in 1970 and I was careening down a ski run on Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain. My arms were bare to ...

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    HUMAN CONNECTIONS: HOW WE MET

    OLIVIA & LUKE Living successfully on their own, almost 600 km apart, Luke and Olivia, both 70, decide ...

    OLIVIA & LUKE Living successfully on their own, almost 600 km apart, Luke and Olivia, both 70, decided, with the nudging of his family and her friends, to reach out for a possible romantic connect ...

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    Human Connections: How We Met: Doug & Ken

    Vancouverite Doug says he would probably never have met Ken, a US resident, and now his husband of more t ...

    Vancouverite Doug says he would probably never have met Ken, a US resident, and now his husband of more than 10 years, if he’d made different choices during his Christmas holidays in Puerto Vallarta i ...

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    Compassion For Self

    Last November, I spent four days on Bowen Island with 60 other people learning about and sharing compassi ...

    Last November, I spent four days on Bowen Island with 60 other people learning about and sharing compassion. Compassion for self, for others, for nature. I have already written about nature, so I thou ...

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    How to Help Those Who Help Others

    Most of us, at some point, will take part in the marathon of caregiving. It’s not usually something we an ...

    Most of us, at some point, will take part in the marathon of caregiving. It’s not usually something we anticipate, sign up for or train for, but it has become the new normal as our aging population en ...

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    Lessons From A Cat

    Pets are becoming increasingly common in Canadian households (about 68 per cent of homes have either a ca ...

    Pets are becoming increasingly common in Canadian households (about 68 per cent of homes have either a cat or a dog), often replacing a human cohabitant. Clearly, former reasons for not having a pet – ...

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    A Love of Grandparenting

    The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can often be a special one. No one knows that better than ...

    The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can often be a special one. No one knows that better than Pauline Daniel, author of Tuesdays with Jack, a compilation of memoirs and reflections of her ...

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    Strategies to Build Resiliency

    Marilyn is 55 years old, works part-time in retail and has two teens at home. She currently cares for her ...

    Marilyn is 55 years old, works part-time in retail and has two teens at home. She currently cares for her partner who has chronic pain and a brain injury from a motor vehicle accident. She feels like ...

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    From

    Shortly before Christmas, I was happily going along, caring for a dog and a house, when my life became ex ...

    Shortly before Christmas, I was happily going along, caring for a dog and a house, when my life became extremely complicated. After helping a neighbour, I was heading back to my car to run some errand ...

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    Do You Really Want Someone to Complete You?

    Twice this week I had conversations with friends, 55+ both expressing the desire to find partners that wo ...

    Twice this week I had conversations with friends, 55+ both expressing the desire to find partners that would “complete” them. “Why do you want to be complete? And, why do you think another person coul ...

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    Learning From Nature

    During the last days of November, I spent a week on Bowen Island studying Compassion. Compassion for ours ...

    During the last days of November, I spent a week on Bowen Island studying Compassion. Compassion for ourselves (a tough one); and compassion for others, those close and far away. We also studied compa ...

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    Tripping on Guilt - Free Yourself

    Guilt is a necessary emotion. It’s our way of helping us correct our path when things get out of hand. Un ...

    Guilt is a necessary emotion. It’s our way of helping us correct our path when things get out of hand. Unfortunately, it has a nasty habit of hanging around for much longer than it was intended to. It ...

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    If I Could Save Time in a Bottle

    “If I could save time in a bottle… If I could make days last forever If words could make wishes come true ...

    “If I could save time in a bottle… If I could make days last forever If words could make wishes come true I'd save every day like a treasure and then…” As we move once again through the last month of ...

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