Once, when distance meant time, I traveled by train from Winnipeg to Churchill on Hudson Bay. It was a two-day trip though endless taiga forests comforting in their vastness. I spent time meditating on how small and insignificant we humans are in relation to the world. Churchill was a one [...]
It’s a sunny day. I woke up to two significant events. The first is president elect Donald Trump. The second is my raspberry patch. I have late bearing raspberries and they are a source of pleasure for me. I feel like I am getting something directly from nature when they [...]
Four hundred and fifty miles from nowhere, at the edge of the arctic circle, we started downriver on our fourteenth day. Or it might have been the twentieth. One loses track of time in the wilderness where there are no calendars or weekends. We are on the Thelon River. It [...]