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In Flight

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

Our newest garden is a magnet for hummingbirds.

Tags flowers, gardening, hummingbirds, nature, wildlife

Final Words

July 29, 2020

Goodby dad.

Tags father, funeral, goodbye, obituary

Saying Goodbye

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

This week I am saying a long goodbye to my dad.

Tags camping, childhood, diabetes, family, father, outdoors, stories

Explorations in the Canadian Rockies

July 15, 2020

Canada’s west-central Rockies have changed dramatically in the two centuries since David Thompson’s time.

Tags Alberta, Canadian Rockies, environment, exploration, First Nations, fur trade, history, landscape, settlers, western canada

Ground Truth

July 8, 2020

Ruby McConnell writes with clarity and feeling about geology and personal life in this series of personal essays.

Tags essays, mount st. helens, pacific northwest, personal essay, science, volcano, writing

The Weight of the Heart

July 1, 2020

Theresa Kishkan’s “The Weight of the Heart” is a feminist geography of western British Columbia.

Tags british columbia, Canadian literature, canlit, Ethel Wilson, geography, novella, rivers, Sheila Watson, writing

Doing Versus Being

June 24, 2020

Sometimes having a chronic illness means you can’t reach the goals you’d planned for, and you have to put them off for a while.

Tags ambition, bipolar, goals, illness, mental health, mindfulness, on being, society

On Being Alone

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020

In the mid-1980s, a British-born Canadian, Chris Czajkowski, built a cabin on a small part of the wilderness homestead of Jack and Trudy Turner, who … Read more

Tags family, mental health, pandemic, quiet, quiet life, social distancing, wilderness

Paying attention

June 10, 2020

Life is about paying attention

Tags attention, flowers, gardening, quotes, writing

Things That Matter

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020

I had a blog post written and ready to post for today, but in light of the protests about George Floyd and systemic police racism … Read more

Tags allies, Black Lives Matter, protests, racism, society, tear gas
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― John Muir

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