Pearce the Heart

  I was thinking on July 25, 2016 when you lose someone suddenly, it comes as a complete shock.   It’s even harder when it is someone that you love and care about.   People that have had pets would understand that when their pet dies it is almost unbearable.   Even though they aren’t a person, they are still like a part of the family.   I find in some ways having a pet go missing is even harder as you don’t have the closure of knowing if your pet passed on or if it is lost somewhere in the world. I mentioned in an earlier post that my cat had gone missing, and to this day I still don’t know where she ended up.   I cried for her, and eventually I felt that she likely had died, but I know that she will always be in my heart. When it comes to losing a family member it becomes a lot harder.   I decided to take these past two weeks off from writing my blog as I lost someone close to me.   I can tell you that this one hit me way harder than I ever e...

  I was thinking on Jul. 1, 2016 since Canada Day was just here that I’d talk about being Canadian.   When I think about what a Canadian looks like I can’t think of a specific group of people.   The reason is that there are a lot of people that immigrate to Canada.   If you think about it many generations ago everyone was an immigrant to Canada, except for the first nations people.   I love it because we have the whole world represented in our country. Some of the stereotypes that other people think about us are true, while others are not.   We don’t all live in igloos and as much a small amount of Native Canadians have lived in igloos it’s not something they do all year long.   We are polite and do say “sorry” a lot.   It almost feels like the moment you hit Canadian soil you can’t help but say “sorry” ;).   We do have four seasons in Canada - a fifth if you include construction.   There always seems to be another road or highway that...