By Vivian Collings Two songs have been playing on repeat in my head for the past week: Hello, Goodbye by the Beatles and Changes by David Bowie.The two lines in particular, “You say goodbye, and…
Until later …
By Darren Lum Thank you.Two simple words with great weight.I am grateful to everyone who gave their time, but, more importantly, opened their homes, their lives and their hearts in sharing their stories. I am…
You have power
By Darren Lum Maybe it’s an exaggeration to believe voting is pivotal to the next four years, but I wonder.Our participation in democracy depends upon the votes we cast. It requires our attention. I believe…
Nothing is something
By Darren Lum There’s lots of time.Twenty-fours to be exact for each day. One hundred sixty-eight hours in a week. Six hundred seventy two hours in a month. Eight thousand sixty-four hours in a year.…
Every day there is truth, but not reconciliation
By Darren Lum A walk in the woods always leaves me feeling free. Free from stress. Free from the daily grind of life. Just free. Thousands of children didn’t feel this freedom when they were…
Home is in the mind, the heart
By Darren Lum The past few years I’ve fully realized my middle-age chapter of life.I have the longer than what used to be normal for my thirties recovery time to feel 100 per cent from…
Live with intention
By Darren Lum With the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, Sept. 19, it’s a reminder that everyone’s time is limited. It doesn’t matter how powerful you may be and how much advantage is…
Fulfilling a childhood dream
By Vivian Collings My Great-Grandmother once said to me, “truth is stranger than fiction,” and this year, I’m really believing it. I’m Vivian Collings, and I joined the Haliburton Echo and Minden Times team in…
Exercise democratic freedom
By Darren Lum The window of opportunity to serve your municipality has passed with nominations closing for municipal elections on Friday, Aug. 19.Although a few races never got started (as outlined with the article, Here…
Audible attribute worth valuing
By Darren Lum It’s easy to forget what you have when you’re not looking … or listening.This editorial may have a similar sentiment to last week, but there is never enough gratitude in this world,…
Absence makes the value of engaging worth savouring
By Darren Lum I heard somewhere grief is about having love you can’t give anymore.As I get older, the losses in my life have mounted, whether from time, circumstances or death. The difficult truth about…
It’s all around
There is beauty in the details of life.There were thousands of creations with varying depths of details showcased at this past Art and Craft Festival event held from July 22 to 25 at Head Lake…
Connecting to soul
By Darren Lum No matter how many advancements are made when it comes to communication technology there is unlikely going to be anything as fulfilling as the in-person interactions between people.This was evident as I…
Reliance on connectivity disconnects
By Darren Lum Walking through the woods early in the morning, it’s clear by the cacahopony of calls by birds that they can communicate as long as they have their voices.In our high tech world…
Saying goodbye with gratefulness
By Sue Tiffin When I first returned to the Haliburton County Echo and Minden Times as a reporter in 2017, it had been 21 years since I had been a co-op student at the Echo…
It’s a matter of perspective
Flags waved across Haliburton County saying hello to another Canada Day.For many it was a long-awaited weekend with family, friends and the optimism for summer, which brings promise of swimming and picnics at the beach…
Optimism for a new day
By Darren Lum Before the COVID-19 pandemic every school year ended the same. Full of hope and belief in a new future with the summer break and opportunity for a new start.Students crossed the stage…
We see you
I used to tell my step-son when he was younger that it didn’t cost us anything to be kind to people.It’s a sentiment I still believe in years later. However, the reality of not sharing…
Care for the carers
By Darren Lum As of June 11, the province has lifted its masking requirements in places such as hospitals and public transit, but not long-term care and retirement homes.Far be it for me to question…
Record for apathy set
By Darren Lum So, Ontario, where were you this election? There was a little less than 44 per cent of eligible voters who cast a ballot, which is a provincial record by 15 per cent.Doug…
Election exhibition of division
By Darren Lum Once upon a time I grew up in a country and a province that prided itself on not being American.It was nothing to brag about. And, yet, it was a belief we…