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We cannot control everything, at least we can try though
For Such A
Time As This
think that just maybe I have
been suffering from 'writer's
block' or something like that.
It hasn't happened to me very
often over my lifetime, but I just
couldn't seem to get fingers to
keyboard these past few weeks
and so no columns appeared.
But I hope that I am past that!
By the time that you read this,
the World Cup of Hockey will be
over. The Major League Baseball
season will be done and the
playoffs will have begun. In the
one we will see whether Canada
still holds supremacy in hockey
and in the other whether 'Cana-
da's team', the Toronto Blue Jays
will enter into the postseason.
While that is going on and is a
nice diversion for us all, we have
seen that there have been signif-
icant violations of the cease fire
in Aleppo with the inadvertent
killing of some medical aid
workers and blame all the way
Column
Pastor Laurie Morris
around among the 'partners' in
that conflict.
We are 'harassed daily by the
continuing gong show that mas-
querades as a political campaign
in the United States. One can
only shake their head at the
prospects of the next four years
as either leader as President will
be fighting half of the congres-
sional representatives on most
issues with a resulting impasse.
Here at home revelations are
coming out every day how the
average person, and especially
those in rural areas are having
Us men are lucky
Woke up the other day at
5:50 in the morning
from my girlfriend telling me
my son decided to do circles in
the kitchen with his plastic tri-
cycle in the dark.
I guess this is his new time to
roll out of bed, anyways while I
was scraping the sleep from
my eyes I took a gander at the
Expositor Twitter page and
noticed October was National
Breast Cancer Awareness
Month.
This had me thinking I
know there are numerous dis-
eases out there that kill males
and females each second of
every hour of each day. How-
ever, breast cancer is the most
common cancer among Cana-
dian women with about one
in nine ratio who will be diag-
nosed with the sometimes -
deadly disease in their life-
time. This sent shivers up my
spine in the worst way possi-
ble. Out of our household,
besides my son and I, every-
one is a female. This includes
three children, one adult;
even both our dogs are girls. I
know if we stay safe by
Column
Shaun Gregory
attending doctor appoint-
ments and always be on top
of things, everything will be
fine, but still that does not
make my anxieties soften one
bit. This predicament cata-
pulted several other thoughts
to bounce around in my head.
We as males are more than
lucky to be fertilized by a Y
chromosome. In terms of
balance compared to both
sexes, it leans favourable on
our side in all sorts of ways.
Imagine having a baby come
out of you the size of a foot-
ball? Actually no I can't.
Every month women receive
pains because it's that time.
This comes with cramps and
escalating bills for their electricity It is also the time when rou-
use, even when by and large tines begin to be re-established.
most people have been dutifully The long days begin to wane and
become very conscious of econo- we have to work to get up in a
raising their use of this valuable darker environment and begin
resource. That a band aid of going to bed a little earlier
rebating the provincial part of the because it isn't so light out. We
HST is coming simply adds to our start into a 'normal' schedule and
tax load without addressing the find out lives do have greater
spiralling costs associated with 'routines' as part of their cycle.
this 'service' which aren't going Let me encourage you to add
to go away anytime soon. one item into that weekly rou-
Meanwhile life goes on for us tine, an item that has consist -
all day by day. ently been slipping in its prac-
Kids have returned to school. tice over the last few decades.
The stifling hot weather is begin- That is to add a deliberate
ning to bend back towards a time to publicly find something
more temperate environment. to believe in.
We ware watching some crops Whether it is a specific religion,
come off the fields with others family, friend or way of life, find
moving towards a harvest stage. that something and go with it.
I am particularly happy that We have virtually no control of
we have arrived at the season any significance in all of the
where we can get our choice of events I have described earlier
fresh new apples of various vari- in this article. Left to our own
eties. That is one thing that I love resources it seems unlikely that
about the fall and I eat at least we will see any kind of positive
two apples every day during this change that would be for the
season! better.
numerous other physical
aggravations of that nature
that I rather not mention.
With menfolk, all we have to
do is make sure we've got
deodorant, a bar of soap and
some toothpaste and we're
good for 30 days. So you can
guess how much it bothers
women when us men feel like
we've got it bad or we portray
stay-at-home mothers as not
having an extremely tough
load on their shoulders. I've
worked all day some say and
then they question what have
you done? You've sat at home
all day with the kids. Oh that's
it eh? I have four children and
they are all under four -years -
old. I'm in charge of a whole
newspaper, I have 1200-1300
dedicated readers that rely on
me, and that's nickels and
dimes correlated to what's on
her plate. She breast feeds a
set of twins, deals with an
insane but loveable two year-
old boy that's happy, sad and
furious at all times of the day.
Thank god my oldest just
started kindergarten, so it can
give her somewhat of a break.
She is Michael Jordan, Joe
Montana and Wayne Gretzky
because she's a good sport in
everything. Which means
she's a mom, girlfriend, house
organizer and the list could
go on for hours of what other
titles she's connected to. I
come home after a long day,
food is cooked, and the house
is clean. I'm honestly think-
ing of getting her tested for
performance enhancing
drugs. How in the heck do
you do this? Yesterday I had
the twins for two hours, I
tried to clean the house, and
only got the floor vacuumed.
Anyways I can talk about my
girlfriend all day and I bet
every person in Seaforth
could do the same. Next time
you see your lady, give her a
hug and tell her you how
much you appreciate what
she does. Remember what it's
like to be a woman and how
easy we have it. Signing out
from the office on a Tuesday
when the place is closed
because the paper is due
early this week. Shaun AKA
the guy who is more than
thankful for all the ladies out
there in the world.
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