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Table of Contents

Part I ::: Part II ::: Part III ::: Part IV ::: Part V ::: Part VI ::: Part VII ::: Part VIII ::: Part IX ::: Part X ::: Part XI

PART ONE – Darkness to Light

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Part I – Page 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22

Page 1    Particles… The Birth of a Fool Manitoba First Tongue Good “Googie” Dandled on Priests’ Knees “I Want to Go to Heaven!” The Constant Question A Born Barnstormer Poverty Magnified by a Cruel Christmas The Headless Horror How Powerful Is Pee? Little Things Big Kindness Is Perpetual School Away from Home Home Away from Home Firstborn Forsaken for a Few Furlongs Wrestling Returning Home My Mother a Witch? Sex Obfuscation Gloria Donald, the Draft Dodger Gluttony Not a Game Big Boys Don’t Cry; Little Boys Do Pudginess, Pee, and Poo The First of My Injuries Injury Number Two Injury Number Three Peter Pan Ill Humor and Cruelty Despise Weakness The Worst Job Ever	Page 2    Particles… My First Memories of Natural Healing Skating and Hockey without Skates or Stick Passing Time Swatting Flies Little Indians and Miniature Trains Money Matters that Mattered A Necessary Preparation A Mysterious Enmity Mother Tongue Forbidden Lying and Cheating “Maybe” vs. “Mother” A Confounding Home Embarrassment, Confusion, and Humiliation “Wish I Wasn’t Born” Birthdays Turkey Trouble Victoria Comes to Victor Pride Goes Before Destruction Art and Me From Hell to Heaven Car Trouble Never Invite Yourself Where Not Invited Troubled Teacher Smash, Scatter, and Sour the Sweets! Tearing of Ties, and Tears Perishing for Lack of Knowledge “Mr. Christmas Tree” Rocks in the Harvest First Bible Encounters The Imitation of Christ Comes an Ex-Soldier Helping Brass Tacks, Brash Tactics, and Grass Tackles Disease Deals Our Dairy a Devastation
Page 3    Particles… Isabel’s Ire A Father I Could Not Trust No Man Is to Be Trusted Small Considerations with Big Impact Being Small Pays Big Sharing Multiplies Toys Weren’t Us Wright Speaks Right Bull or No Bull? Spelling Perfection Childish Thoughts and Deeds My Fourth Injury – Perpetrated through Ignorance Tomato Trauma The Scare of My Childhood Southern Alberta Calls Injury Five The Hiding Place My First Bicycle The Veribest Specialty Company “Do Unto Others…” A Family of Friendlies and Formidables	Page 4    Particles… What Kind of Ukrainians? Contempt for Others Breeds Self-Contempt Little Things Mean a Lot Divorce in the Days of My Childhood A Sample Apology, Owed to Many Teacher Stupid and Student Stupefied A Betrayal Discerning Divine Damnation More Judgment More Apologies Big Brother Ungrowing Pains Non-Catholics Evil A Favorite Cousin Masturbation Bestiality Dirty Laundry a Reality Laundering a Necessity The Great “Mr. Clean” Freedom from Fear The Answer, First and Last Hunting and Trapping No Money in More Moles Uncles Can Be So Selfish
Page 5 Particles… Sundays a Nightmare No Money, No Church My First Atheistic Challenge Getting Wet and Getting Over It The Ground Rises and the Sky Falls Fire Destroys Stubble and Straw The Dreadful Dead Pleasures Take Their Toll Childhood Books and Heroes Cartoons, Good or Bad? The Born Loser Tragedy a Door to Better Things The Dairy Devil Country School Picnics The Home Run that Wasn’t Urbanization Haste and Unpreparedness Make Waste Losing Lady A Strange Reaction The Mysterious McKay	Page 6    Particles… My Experience with Indian Assimilation What Is Good or Evil? An Example of Need for Improvement among Natives Tears Drown a Friendship Suicidal Sidekicks A Quiet and Justified Confidence Friend Fred’s Fighting Fame Confusing People What Does Life Hold? Three Peaceful Rulers Balcaen Bags a Braggart Bullies to Be Floored, Not Ignored Hail Churchill From a Whisper… …To a Shout Lessons of War Exceptions Happen Things Change and Tables Turn Budding Workaholic Fuller Brush and Nick Genik Recurring Nightmare of Crossing Railroad Tracks Recurring Nightmare of Driving Up a Steep Hill Recurring Nightmare of Stolen Bike Recurring Nightmare of Dauphin Streets Confusing Dauphin’s Deadly Dimension Cancer Incidence in My Days
Page 7    Particles… “The Dance of Death” Omens and Spirits My Sixth Injury An Elderly Jewish Friend Nice if Kids Knew The Elders Know I Won! I Earned, and I Won! Friends or Relatives – Which? Being Favored Not My Favorite Fare Seattle World’s Fair Fear of Loss My Electromagnetic Performance First Christian Testimony Rare Repartee My Collectables Esperanto My Favorite Sport Other Sports A Terrible Traffic Tragedy Guys Girls The Power of Music Recurring Nightmare of High School and Hospital Confusion	Page 8    Particles… Recurring Nightmare of Dilapidated Storage Warehouses Recurring Nightmare of Dirty Toilets Recurring Nightmare – Where to Pee? Better Dreams of Faith Flying The School of Hard Knocks A Taste of Insecurity An Accurate Aptitude Analysis St. Vladimir’s Minor Seminary Running from Reality Religious Regulation and Regimen Collective Correction Seminary Students Shark without Blood Vile Imaginations and More Vile Audacity Monsignor Murray Debut in Hockey Greater Horizons with the Guitar A New Friend One of Those Curious Twists in Life Sweet Cy’s Humor Swan Song at Swan River A Taste of Attention Bass Deception Memphis Poor Old Rich Man That Which They Feared More Bachelor Brothers And More Still Honor Thy Father
Page 9  Particles… My First Time Drunk The Ciga-route Life Ever in the Balance Stalling Sleep More to Life than Skill and Pay Illegalities, Illegitimacies, and Infidelities Boarders at Home William K. Orr Mother’s Alleged Nervous Breakdown My Catholic Christmases A Momentary Agent for Entertainers Business Administration Meanwhile, Unbeknownst to Me… “No Retail for You” Brief Big Brother Playing in Bars Illegally Family Business and Ties My First Home in Winnipeg Jam Jarred, Soul Marred Frightening Old Folk Drinking Buddies The Ukrainian Clown Tim Fedak	Page 10  Particles… Archie Shoots Up the Town Chickens Home to Roost My Father’s Marital Advice Gerry McClintock Livia Phillips Embarrassment with Strings Attached A Broken Home on Home Street A Time Appointed To Heal Trick or Treat The Sound of Music Billy Graham Comes to Town Pepper Parts Pals Bunking with Mr. Manitoba Runner-Up A Deal for the Future Jilted Self-Destruction by Ignorance Polyester a Poor Pal Love as Thin Ice The Right Man Wronged Recurring Nightmare of Approaching Exams Garden Raiding California Not a Fighter at Heart Some Sun Done Enter the Fornicator A Child Somewhere?
Page 11  Particles… The Guess Who Hooked, Hat and All Shaky Shelter for a Shattered Woman Bert’s Gift to the Kives Brothers Wealth Does Not Breed Generosity Dry Grass Is Greener “Red” (Past) Versus “Read” (Passé) Bar Hopping and Beer Sopping Smoking Addiction Smoking an Only Pleasure Drunkenness and Foolishness Bumble Beer Fooling with Death Flirting with Death Taunting Death Dancing with Death Families without Unity A Shameful Sham of a Son My First Car Unscrupulous Dealers for Chintzy People Taken For an Expensive Ride One Jew Who Didn’t Help Me, or Did He? Partnerships Lesbian Entertainment Oral Sex	Page 12  Particles… An Auto Seed Planted Mock Ministry and Marriage An Answer to the Prayer of a Sinner Bay Bosses Flirting with Adultery Recurring Nightmare of Stolen or Vandalized Car Recurring Nightmare of Stolen Shoes or Coat Open House – BYOB Wrestling at a Wedding Another Shot at a Music Band My First Staff Management Challenge An Apology to the Ladies of the Bay Recurring Nightmare of Bay Stairs A Boot Instead of a Glass Slipper Basement Shoes Staff Working for the King in Wizard of Id Other Bay Basement Executives Choler Contagious High Stakes on Low Steaks No Friend to Friends The Magic of Money-Making Holidays My Parents’ 25th Anniversary Abusing Friend and Sowing for Trouble Gigglers
Page 13  Particles… Friends of Friends Not the Best of Friends No Mercy for the Distressed Dale Carnegie Personality Prisons for Presumptuous People My First Childhood Companion’s Lot Seventh Injury a Mercy Stroke Dr. Duncan Croll, a Special Specialist Bachelor’s Mini-Paradise Dreams of Miraculous Healing Companions in the Hospital Scare and Rescue Healer in Need of Healing Three and a Half Months and the Search Begins Sponsorship Control in Amway Enter Christian Evangelicals Healers Don’t Know It All Amway Divides, for Good The Power of a Pretty Woman A Reluctant Return The Pain of Parting How Christ Is Unique Male Bathroom Unmanners Mother’s Counsel on Extramarital Sex	Page 14  Particles… Concept-Therapy, Forming God The Pleasurable Delusion of Mystic Philosophy Jesus Christ Not a Pawn Dead to the Sorrowful “Tremendous Charlie Jones” No Duty? I’ll Take Them The Greatest Salesman in the World Visit to Ada Amway: Not as Things Appear Marks for Mammon Ross Rally in Palm Springs Superfluous Possessions The Price of Stardom and Wealth Rude Revenue Ruffians Good and Evil in Amway A Stuffed Shirt Deflated by a Dead Duck 70’s Homes Canada More Seeds Sown, Even by Hypocrites A Brazen Bad Boy Separation and Search Future Saviors A Taste of God’s Sovereignty The Ritz in Sheho Peace Instead of Turmoil Religion Rejects Reality
Page 15  Particles… My Offense against Frank Hickey Sometimes, Lightning Does Strike Twice at Once A Hippie Skeptic Tricks of the Trade First Full Read of the Bible Crying Out to God The Light that Blinds What is a Christian? Jesus Christ Makes an Appearance The Indians’ Peace Impossible to Do and Be Good “You’ll Have the Life” Pork and Parasites A Bitter Man A Horse behind the Cart Twenty-Seven Years of Darkness about to End Truth and Scriptures Shared Pride	Page 16  Particles… Turning to Jesus Christ God Is Real! Evidence of Change while Faith Tested A Great Sinner Much More to It This Time My Family Reacts My First Eviction for the Faith Testifying to the Bill Hafichuk Family My Father Mocks Choosing the Path of Tragedy Sweet Cy Sensible and Sympathetic That’s Gratitude for You Boot Number Two “A Little Jesus” Catholic Sinner Preferable to Non-Catholic Saint A Striking Word from God A Messenger Decades in the Preparation Christian Contacts and Companions Still a Catholic Advised to Leave the Catholic Church Full-Time Christian Companion Provided The Simplicity of the Alliance Church Tears of Sorrow to Tears of Joy The Impatience of Youth How to Butt Out A Suicidal Habit Regret, Not Hypocrisy
Page 17  Particles… George’s Streak of Self-Righteousness Little Chicks Soon Get Homely Grandmother Grandstands and Grandslams Two Different Gods? Some Curious Christian Differences Burping and Soiling Diapers Touching Base with Harry Roder Tell It Like It Is Dissatisfaction from the Upper Levels Two Masters, One for the Lips, the Other for the Heart What One Sows, He Surely Reaps No Restitution, No Forgiveness The Joy of Restitution Apology to Frank Hickey More Joy And More, All with Forgiveness Restitution to an Institution Powerful Catholic Apologetics Seeking Social Sympathy My Eighth Injury – A Drop at Death’s Door Deals Deliverance Some Busybodies to Be Appreciated The Children of This World Wiser in Their Generation Switching Sources of Spiritual Sustenance Timely Words from a Stranger	Page 18  Particles… Man Fails… …but God Prevails Back on Track My Second Baptism, Yet My First Enter Temptation RCAF 5BX and Weight Watchers Freedom from Debt My Challenger Archie Marries A Fear of Competition Secrets of Sales Success Another Black Sheep Discovered Hypocrisy Harms Money Matters – Too Much Nothings and Somethings Iron Sharpens Iron The Greatest of Griefs Honor Your Father and Mother… or Not Jesus Dries the Dishes Franko Comes to Free (or Foil) Alcohol The Fruits of Excess Alcohol Preacher Perry F. Rockwood Herbert W. Armstrong
Page 19  Particles… John R. Rice Heeding Head or Heart Lukewarm Lambs, Likewise Leaders The Rapture Is Bible School the Answer? “Keep Going – You Are Not There Yet” Bible School Chosen for Me Southern Baptist Power First Impressions Not Good Spiritual Stillbirth My First Marilyn in Christianity Petting Off Limits for Singles Our Paths Part in a Peculiar Way Unceremoniously Dismissed without Cause All or Nothing Those Not For Are Against Two Unreconciled Worlds Divine Division in Mysterious Ways Petty Pecuniary and Palate Problems The Mystical Connection of All Believers Sheep without a Shepherd Last Call My First Home in Saskatoon Some Motivation for My Seventeenth Home	Page 20  Particles… Provision Precisely Prepared “Ask Me, Not Man” A Spirit of Control Not Jew-bilant Students at Christian Training Center The Introduction to Organic Food People at Faith Baptist Church “I Know You Believe You Understand What You Think I Said…” Fruits of Frustration Bible School – School without the Bible First Sermon Foundational Marilyn Manifests a Marvelous Might Down I Go Again Baptist Doctrine – Water Torture A Primer on Denominational Division How Can I Learn It All? No Man to Help Okanagan Excursion Timothy Two Banff Young Adults Sunday School An Uncle Confides Challenger Challenged Buying Souls out of Hell Why No Unity of Heart and Soul? A Hurt Boy
Page 21  Particles… Deceptive Appearances A Fast Friend A Joyful Piece of News Indeed Archie’s Conversion to Christ Weary of Works False Faith Produces Confusion A Sad Misunderstanding The Croteaus’ Creeping Crisis The Power of Drugs A Tormented Woman Seed of the Sabbath A Ukrainian Call A Call from Far Away Comfort and Consideration at My Eighteenth Home Homes of My Life Thus Far All in the Ears of the Hearer Is Insurance Necessary? Christian Insurance Brokers A Cousin Contrary to Christ Friend Friesen’s Folly and Fruits The Role of Women in Churches Our Diverging Paths Preparation for the Higher	Page 22  Particles… Open Confessions Not Always Wise The Call of Consecration Archie, A Fish out of Water The Bait Is Set Is God or Man Joining Us Together? Drinking from a Common Goblet Hook, Line, and Sinker Ominous Words Why Did I Marry? Having Children Impossible Have Your Cake or Eat It Our Wedding Family Wedding Guests The World Loves Its Own The Cross Causes Crossness False Funny A Salted, Sugared, and Slipperied Suite Riding Two Horses at Once A Marked Man for Eternity Archie Prevails Lillian’s Livid Looks Pittman Chuckles with Pleasure Rapture in Christ Better than Marriage

Part I ::: Part II ::: Part III ::: Part IV ::: Part V ::: Part VI ::: Part VII ::: Part VIII ::: Part IX ::: Part X ::: Part XI