The ray of light behind the grey

The past few weeks have been particularly grey for me.

It started in September when my uncle suddenly lost his wife, a lovely woman who, unfortunately, I didn’t know all that well. But in the interactions I did have with her, she was the kind of bubbly, outgoing and supremely giving person everyone wants in their group of loved ones.

Add to that the death of the Hon. Murray Sinclair, whom I greatly admired and had the chance to converse with only twice in my life.

This was followed by the death of Winnipeg sportswriter and editor Ted Wyman, well-known and respected in local journalism circles and by our local sports teams (seriously, f**k cancer). Teddy was everyone’s buddy.

Then, late last week, the shoc