Day 2-94 -- Brave enough to choose

It's been a day of mixed emotions and very different social events. We ended the day with a non-traditional Easter dinner of shrimp etouffee and two wonderful salads - a corn and bell pepper with spinach and the other an asparagus with bell pepper and tomato -- with a lemon lime tart for dessert. A very yummy dinner with great friends and conversation.

Earlier in the day I'd been to a celebration of the life of a recently passed friend. The program involved tributes and music that invoked tears and laughter. The whole event was very moving and yet somehow fun. This woman had worked in the realm of social justice and adult education for her full career. She worked at the provincial level with Development and Peace in Saskatchewan and then moved to the national office in Toronto for many years. She moved to Nova Scotia and worked closely with anti-poverty organizations, women's resource centres, and the Coady International Institute. She loved music and was a member of the local female choir The Wandering Menstruals. She had a great sense of humanity and met life head on with humour, love and a bit of irreverence. During the program, members of the  Sisters of St. Martha sang two songs they felt depicted her life and her choices to dream and to love -- to be brave enough to make those choices.

The selection today is one of the songs sung by the Marthas. This one notes the fear of making the choices that will enrich our lives and the lives of those around us. Enjoy!

The Rose -- Bette Midler & Wynonna Judd