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RIP Robin Williams:

Robin Williams died? See what happens when you go away for a retreat in the middle of nowhere? You miss all the big news where it happens. Actually, strange as it may seem, I'm still up in the bush in the middle of nowhere... although I'm now lodged in at the owners camp and not alone in a cabin... because due to four straight days of rain and low clouds, the plane coming to pick me up has been grounded and can't fly in to bring me home.  Now being weather stranded in the Canadian Shield is hardly uncommon so that's not exactly what I find strange. I find it strange that in a cabin in the middle of nowhere - hundreds of kilometers by air to the nearest town or village - and I can still be connected to  the world and learn that Robin Williams committed suicide after receiving a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease. That miles and miles from the nearest hydro or telephone line, I can be connected to the outside world with modern satelite technology and an internet acc
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Time for my annual retreat

G'Day folks:  I will be going on retreat this coming week up to a secluded cabin up in Northwest Quebec where there are no phones, TV's, radios, electricity, or internet. All there is is peace and quiet, bush, water, and privacy. In other words... heaven on earth! (IMHO) I will be praying for all of you and ask you for the same. I'll resume posting here 'Where the Rubber Hits the Road' beginning next Friday, August 15th when I return to civilization. Have a great and blessed week!!!
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C.S. Lewis (one of my favorite writers) on why he cannot be an atheist

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