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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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