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| Writing requires effort---action, work. That's why it is called a discipline. Our ability to make an effort, to work, grows stronger with active living and grows weaker with passive living. The more we do, the more we can do. The less we do, the more difficult everything becomes, including writing. |
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| What was it like for a new immigrant to Canada in 1936? Was it loneliness that made my mother return to her native Germany on the eve of World War II, taking me, her two-year-old daughter with her? Separated from my father and my native Canada we spent the entire war, eleven years in all, in Germany. Our life and struggles in a world at war and my own subjection to an abusive mother. Read about the last days of the war, American liberation and when 15-million refugees flooded into the west, a west that was 50-70% in rubble. Returning to Canada turned out no better, as my father too abandoned me. Part one covers the first twenty-eight years of my life, including a teen marriage and subsequent service in the Catholic Church. Part two relates my deepening commitment to the church and to God as I understood him, including 15 years as a hermit and 10 years in the Tridentine Mass movement. An amazingly candid portrayal of a life lived on two continents and in two worlds: the secular and the religious, and how abuse and betrayal sometimes happen to good people. |