I was just listening to CBC Radio about the aftermath of civil war in Sierra Leone. One of the students in the new drop-in class that I recently set up at the Saskatoon Open Door Society is from that country. The reporter visited a special centre for amputees whose hands, etc. had been cut off during the violence that gripped Sierra Leone. I thought about a new student at Open Door who is a refugee from Afghanistan. He's missing both hands.

Thinking about things like this makes my own problems seem trivial.