I grew up in a small southern town, never really feeling like I belonged. I dreamed of living in a big city. Underwhelmed by my environment, I thrived on my imagination and often entertained myself with video games, books, and movies.
Archives for 2014
Transcending the Limits of British Columbia’s Natural Landscapes
My connection with nature has been engraved in my soul since childhood. As a child I remember spending many hours alone in the forest behind my parents’ house lost in my own imaginary games and thoughts. The forest became my extension of home.
The Last Days of Winter
The last days of winter have arrived. Tiny green shoots are springing up beneath the remaining sheets of snow. Weather reports all around predicting the clear arrival of spring any day now.
Grape Expectations
South Australia’s Barossa Valley becomes a tapestry of colours in autumn – green, yellow, gold and rich red/ brown – stitched to a quilt of rolling vineyards, scattered with old-world colonial homesteads.
Dispatches From Mayne Island: Lessons on Life, Death and Leadership
Mayne Island, life and death blend naturally together. Death feels different here than in the urban and suburban environments. Life and death are not engaged in a struggle. They embrace as the body of lovers merging into one body. This is the natural blending of life, life’s vitality and beauty, and is nourishment for the soul when we allow ourselves to be open to the harmony of the natural process. In our times, we attempt to hide death, block and tuck it away from our vision. It is a fallacy to think we can. Death is an ever present reality. Yet we are confronted by a choice.
Amazing Dubai: How to get more from the Emirate’s Greatest City
The United Arab Emirates city of Dubai is world-famous as a playground for the rich but you don’t need an immense bank balance to enjoy all that this city has to offer.
Tarmac Meditations #144: Unnatural Interactions With Inanimate Objects
I had nothin for ya yesterday. Got nothin for ya today. Got no sense that tomorrow will be any better. What can I say, I got them old time empty mailbox blues, Ya mon.
A Journey to Spirit #7: A Little Lamb Threatens
It was 1980, and I had just married my second husband, who happened to be an atheist. I was attending a church in town and had enrolled my eight-year old son into their school. It was an enrollment requirement that at least one of the parents attend the church. And in the beginning, I was happy to comply.
The Truth Is…
Are adages and proverbs based on the way we should live our lives, or in a perfect world and if we weren’t humans, these are the rules we should follow?
Scotland – History, Cuisine and Single Malt
Our visit was just six days but we had a taste of both major cities, plus, to the north, the most intensive whisky producing region in the world.
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