Elders, An Old Story

by | Oct 29, 2020 | Notes from

Elders, An Old Story Elders https://bobchartier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/elders.m4a An old story goes that a young man tentively knocked on the door of the beloved American poet Robert Frost.  The great man invited him in and poured him a cup of tea.  After more...

Seed Potatoes

by | Oct 5, 2020 | Notes from

Seed Potatoes Seed Potatoes Lessons in Gratitude https://bobchartier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/seed-potatoes.m4a Seed potatoes … lessons in gratitude They would spend the winter in my grandparent’s root cellar and in my parent’s dirt floor basement.  They were the...

Analog Inglewood

by | Aug 1, 2020 | Notes from

Analog Inglewood Analog Inglewood https://bobchartier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Analog-Inglewood.mp3 The audio is available the text is … Coming Soon...

Pandemic Lessons

by | Jun 30, 2020 | Notes from

Pandemic Lessons Pandemic Lessons https://bobchartier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Pandemic-Lessons.mp3 I used to be a teacher, a principal and even a superintendent in the world of education.  For a portion of my career, my work was with First Nations communities. ...

Joni

by | Dec 1, 2018 | Grace Notes

I had been working pretty hard for a couple of days in Toronto and was happy to be boarding a plane for the four-hour flight home to Saskatoon.  So I was tired, cranky and very much deep into my own head as I boarded.  The one silver lining was that a few minutes...