So great to find an article recently on Photoblogger.com about low-vision photography. With other “legally blind” photographers, (<20/200, uncorrectable) I am not alone in facing challenges using my digital mirrorless camera (Fuji XT-5), a machine designed with fully sighted photographers in mind, though increasingly responding to the needs of us living with sight challenges. Chris... Continue Reading →
I lost touch with Bill and Anne Osborne many years ago. An online search tells me that Bill died in 2018; Anne is likely still living in Victoria somewhere. (Please forward this blog to her if you are in contact with her.) We shared music, church, and the arts together in the mid-1970s. Bill was... Continue Reading →
[Ken Gray] Those who live, work, or recreate with me know only too well my frustrations coping with hearing loss. The disability grows in influence on me every single day; and on others. Recent frustrations include connecting my phone to my hearing aids, to the point where the only remaining option is to send my... Continue Reading →
OK, I admit it; I am jealous of photographers who can travel to majestic, exotic, and breathtakingly beautiful places all over the world to capture amazing images -- Mount Killimanjero, Victoria Falls, the Great Bear Rainforest, New York City. I don’t travel all that well now; I cannot justify the expense given other priorities; I... Continue Reading →
I did not attend the Vancouver School of Theology so never studied with the late, Dr. Terry Anderson. I did meet him however in the early 2000s as he travelled to Summerland for a weekend event with local ecumenical clergy and our congregations. Summerland Christian community leaders were a diverse lot in those days, ranging... Continue Reading →
A sermon for the congregation of St. Saviour Anglican Church, Penticton BC and for a wider online community of spirit seekers — Sunday, July 6th, 2025, the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost — The Very Rev. Ken Gray Nice to be back with you following five wonderful weeks in Victoria. We return at the height of... Continue Reading →
[Ken Gray] As General Synod 2025 draws to a close I was delighted to learn of a conversation around disability and inclusion. As one who has lived with legal blindness since birth, and given recent acute hearing loss with a subset of arthritis challenges, I am interested to learn of this initiative. Society as a whole,... Continue Reading →
Mwigulu, courageously speaking in front of the African Court last September [Ken Gray] Readers of my blog will already know that as an Albino myself I have long supported the work of Under the Same Sun, a charity based in British Columbia but working in Tanzania to support Albinos who live at great risk and... Continue Reading →
Response to my earlier blog Everything is Evil has been deep and swift. I have received comments and suggestions from more readers of this blog than any other. Thanks to everyone who has contributed. This blog includes a wide variety of responses, each in their own way wrestling with the ethical and physical issues related... Continue Reading →
Sometimes the best advice I receive comes from those closest to me: Longtime friends, work colleagues, family members including my wife, Kathie, and our two kids. Farewell Facebook, goodbye Elon Musk, but hello to family members, those of my own flesh, to my own son, tho recently told me that “everything is evil.” This seemed... Continue Reading →
Take Note - Reflections on life, music, politics, retirement and more by Ken Gray 