Up until a few weeks ago, I had never given any thought to the concept of a scatter zone. When you drop a glass, you clean up the broken pieces. You notice many different sizes and shapes of broken glass. The big pieces are carefully picked up and you usually need a broom or vacuum for the small pieces. Now, when I think about that broken glass, I realize there’s a ‘scatter zone’ because it’s not unusual to find a piece of glass a few days later, quite far from …

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It’s been almost forty years since the plane crash. After all these years, one would think that it is no longer difficult for me to write or talk about it. In fact, most people assume that the experience of writing my book about that deeply painful time of my life must have been therapeutic. Cathartic. When I think back to those initial few months after the tragedy, one thing I remember hearing over and over was that time heals. Almost forty years later, I have to say that time does …

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Law of Attraction, simply stated, is that we attract into our life what we think about. Thoughts become things. There are no coincidences. Things don’t happen because of chance, luck or accident. Almost forty years ago, the life I’d known for 13 years was extinguished when my mother and two younger sisters were killed in an Air Canada plane crash. Back then, when a tragedy struck, particularly of this magnitude, the most common thing said was that time would heal. There were no grief counsellors or trauma specialists jumping in …

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