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Between Our Steps: A Phone-Free Market Day in a World That Never Pauses

Between Our Steps: A Phone-Free Market Day in a World That Never Pauses

When a local vendor forgets their phone on a tense news day, a routine Saturday at the Owen Sound Farmers Market becomes a quiet lesson in disconnection, presence, and what can truly wait.

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These days, I only listen to the radio in the car. I am enjoying the silence at home, and catching up on what’s happening in the world while driving into town.

Heading in for the Farmers Market on a Saturday, I caught CBC’s World Report. Shock hit. Israel and Iran were firing missiles at e…

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Cathy Hird lives between the escarpment and Georgian Bay, the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Retired farmer and United Church minister, Hird writes fiction and creative non-fiction, with seven published fantasy and SciFi novels.
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