Tag Archives: childhood

The Feeling of Abandonment

Posted on April 9, 2018 by cdsmiller17

We All Have Our Crosses to Bear Do you know why atheists feel justified in saying that there is no God? Because even Jesus, dying on the cross, called out to Him, and He didn’t come to Jesus’ rescue. Abandonment … Continue reading →

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Now and Then: Dunsford United Church

Posted on February 26, 2018 by cdsmiller17

October 2006 Date unknown, although not much has changed in my view. The tree seems larger.

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Now and Then: Windermere House

Posted on February 23, 2018 by cdsmiller17

In summer In winter with my sister Anne in 2010 1950s 1930s postcard

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Finding Father: Hook versus Peter Pan

Posted on January 7, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Finding Neverland J.M. Barrie wrote the original story of Peter Pan, as a play and then a book. The film Finding Neverland explores how this came about. According to Wikipedia: the story focuses on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, his … Continue reading →

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Back to the ‘Hood, Babyhood

Posted on December 12, 2017 by cdsmiller17

  I Am Born Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. (David Copperfield) My mother recorded my birth details in my … Continue reading →

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Is this Normal Behaviour?

Posted on July 19, 2017 by cdsmiller17

In early 1978, I met the woman who would later that year become my second wife, and her two-year old daughter. The details are unimportant, but the relationship that I split up is the point of this story. Background Sue … Continue reading →

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Hershey’s Kiss

Posted on July 17, 2017 by cdsmiller17
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Water Works

Posted on July 18, 2016 by cdsmiller17

  Ask me what it’s like to help raise My mother: you have to show her You care for her, and give her praise.   Easy you say? Have you ever Listened to grown-ups who can talk Incessantly about things … Continue reading →

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Expanded Consciousness

Posted on May 30, 2015 by cdsmiller17

We don’t realize that we’re on a spiritual path when we are young. It is only later that the ‘strange’ events add up to a significant number of coincidences. Here are a few of mine. Scared of the Dark When … Continue reading →

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Rainy Day

Posted on June 1, 2014 by cdsmiller17

Rainy Day   The sleepy sky has not yet wak’ed: The street is darkly melancholic; A drizzle paints a misty haze, And dampens any frolic. The silence of the gloomy street, By feet splashing a steady beat Is broken…   … Continue reading →

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