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A Time of Heroes
The world seems short of heroes. We find flaws everywhere. We diminish. We deconstruct. We contextualize. But why? Heroes can inspire our...


Hard Lessons
This morning, the newspaper title caught my attention: The Harder Life Gets, the Softer We Need to Be.” There was also a subtitle: When...


Gracious Beginnings
We are a band of brothers, a fleet of sisters and mothers, fellow-travellers into the dense thicket of lakes and streams, portages...


Hypotheticals: Chasing Phantoms
A great weight we can carry if we only think about what might or could occur. Do you do this with situations such as we are facing right...


Spring Wait
Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf. A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold It is becoming...


So Soon the Thunder Rolls
In the distance the thunder but the mosquitoes are swarming. Life implodes. From out of the shadows and swampy places, they ferry and...


You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.
In this particular time, we need templates from what has gone on before. I turn to Ernest Shackleton. In January 1915, his ship was...


7 Ways Portages Teach Us
In life, we know there will be difficulties. But we often don't know what lies ahead. We can't anticipate all the problems. In canoeing,...


Don't Let the Old Man In
(Title credited to Clint Eastwood. Song written by Toby Keith after he asked Eastwood how he kept himself so active? His answer: "I never...
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