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A strange forgiveness

1 Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / April 19, 2014 / 2014, forgiveness, Rwandan genocide, Rwandan genocide 20th anniversary, Rwandan recovery, Rwandan reunification / 4 minutes of reading

The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, April 20, 2014

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ Forgive and forget is how the old saying goes, but you and I both know that it’s not worth spit, that we’ll never forget certain crimes committed against us, maybe even imagined crimes like those in a recent dream of mine.

It was a nightmare with Africans carrying machetes. I looked out my window. The university grounds where I live was crawling with the killers.

“We won’t kill anyone,” one said. He looked at me through a window of a bedroom where my 10-year-old daughter lay sleeping. “We’ll just cut your arm off.”

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Forgiving our fathers. And mothers. (What a load.)

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / April 1, 2014 / 2014, forgiveness, forgiving your father and mother; forgiving your parents, good parenting techniques, humour / satire, Leslie Leyland Fields / 2 minutes of reading

If there is one thing I’ve learned about fatherhood since the condition fell on me (like a piano out of a 4th-floor window) it’s that today’s fathers are perfect. Always. Yep. Every day. Sunup to sundown. And because today’s fathers, and mothers too, are perfect, they should be given great honour. I tell my kids this in subtle ways. For instance,

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Forgiveness

1 Comment / Daily Dad / January 8, 2014 / 2014, forgiveness / 1 minute of reading

We were in the car and Liz was looking rather thoughtful, the sort of look that kids have when you know they have something important on their minds, and she finally looked at me and said, “What if you and Mommy had a big fight. What would happen?” “We’d forgive each other,” I said. “Okay,”

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Summer snow

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / December 21, 2012 / 2012, Christmas, forgiveness, thievery / 2 minutes of reading

(Cont’d from yesterday) To finish the story of Gloria, the little Ugandan girl who is the thief –turned-family-friend, there’s not much more to say except that in the past days we have been robbed of items of far greater import than swimsuits and underwear. Twice. At Christmas in particular, thieves need to get on with

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For God so loved the world

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / December 20, 2012 / 2012, forgiveness, friendship, our Ugandan home / 2 minutes of reading

(Cont’d from yesterday) … So after spending the night at the precinct, the girls’ families were found and informed of their mischief. We thought this was more or less the end of it, until the one, Gloria, the little Ugandan girl who had previously just about tripped while running away with the stolen clothing falling

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