Joy

Down in my heart… I’ve been thinking about writing about joy, but I have been avoiding it. At times I have trouble finding it. This Christmas season the words “Love, Peace and Joy” pop up in greeting cards and in stores, but they are hard to find in the news, in the day-to-day reality of war and injustice. The news is evidently not where I should look to find joy.   Lately I have been noticing little ones who readily embrace joy. I love doing science experiments with my kindergarten students. They see the outcomes of our experiments with wonder…

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Change

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  I am in a certain stage of my life as a woman in her late forties. I am a Gen-Xer; I smirk, but also reminisce when I see something deemed retro from the 80s and 90s. Today, I received my first mammogram, something that will become more routine because that is part of life as a woman who is “midlife.” Despite the discomfort, I want to know my body. I will soon face what some have dubbed The Change. The moniker for menopause seems a bit much in my mind: isn’t that life, change?   King Solomon’s words come…

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Bridges and Barriers

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by Harmony McMillan   “If we have no peace, it is because  we have forgotten that we belong to each other”.                                           -Mother Teresa   A couple of years ago, I worked with a group of Grade 8 students on a project called “Craft Reconciliation”.  The nation-wide challenge was to use Minecraft to create a city that represented our vision for reconciliation in Canada.  Along the way, schools were invited to share in conversations about “what reconciliation looks like” in their local contexts.  Our classroom, made up of primarily First Nations students, partnered with a classroom in Newfoundland,…

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Learning to Reconcile When Hope Dies

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By Trinda Jocelyn   It was abnormally late when I picked up the phone. My mother’s name was lighting up the screen. I tapped the green dot, put the phone to my ear, and heard her voice say,    “Your dad passed away today.”    That was five years ago.   I don’t remember much of the conversation after that, I do remember the feeling. Sadness and relief at the same time and then guilt for feeling the relief. My father and I were not close. He was not close to any of his daughters. He left shortly after I…

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Reconciliation is an Open Door

By Beckey Franke   Reconciliation is a blessing, even though it can be a difficult process in most situations.  This reconciliation word takes me back to when I was a child and had to tell my parents when I did something bad.  I worried about their reaction and what kind of fight would ensue and then worried about the pending punishment. As I grew older and became a parent, I remember how proud I was of my children when they came to me to reconcile in truth and honesty.  It didn’t happen as much as I would have liked it…

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The Gift of Reconciliation

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By Katelyn Stamler   Reconciliation has always felt like a heavy word to me.    I was first introduced to the concept in university. As a student in the education program at the U of R, we were presented with the topic early and often. I still remember the horrible feeling in my stomach as I sat through my first ECS 100 lecture. There was a guest speaker that night and she came in to talk about reconciliation with Indigenous people. The entire point of her lecture seemed to be that as white Canadians we were responsible for the atrocities…

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Letter from the Editor 2020

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January 13, 2020   Dear Readers,   Today is your lucky day! You’ll wake up to not one, but two messages of encouragement this Monday morning from the staff here at Sister Triangle Magazine. Make sure you don’t miss our newest article, “The Gift of Reconciliation” by Sister Triangle Editor, Katelyn Stamler.   Before you take off and read Katie’s fantastic words, may I borrow a moment of your time? I’m here to connect with you on all things Sister Triangle Magazine. I want to begin by wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are so excited…

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The In-Between

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By Mira Krahn   It’s only the beginning of the school year, and I’m already starting to think of Christmas holidays. Not that I’m ready for a break already; I want to plan ahead. I’m going to enjoy my almost-two-weeks off. I mean, who doesn’t love Christmas? Well, actually, I don’t. I like Christmas, but what I really love is Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve has always been my favourite day of winter. When I was small, my sister and I were each allowed to open one gift the night before Christmas—the first gift of the holiday. That only whet our…

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Anticipation

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By Nancy Taylor   All of our lives, we live in anticipation.    We wake up in the morning and listen to the weather, so we can dress in anticipation.   We spend spring anticipating summer, summer anticipating September and return to school, and fall anticipating winter and Christmas.   The Merriam Webster dictionary defines anticipation as “a prior action that takes into account or forestalls a later action”, but in general, we think of anticipation as pleasurable.  Another definition of anticipation is “the act of looking forward, especially: pleasurable expectation” (Merriam Webster, n.d.). While we anticipate things both happy…

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Remember Me?

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By Deanna Cook   We look forward. We wonder. We dream. We count days with excitement. We don’t know the end of the story. We only know what we can see. And that can be exhilarating or terrifying.    I always anticipated that I would be married and have a family.   I am content with my life – I have found purpose as a single woman. I have been a mentor to younger single women. I have a job I love, where I get to mother many teenagers. I have more opportunities and flexible income to do things that…

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