• Learning From Nature

    During the last days of November, I spent a week on Bowen Island studying Compassion. Compassion for ours ...

    During the last days of November, I spent a week on Bowen Island studying Compassion. Compassion for ourselves (a tough one); and compassion for others, those close and far away. We also studied compa ...

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  • A Self-Reliant Man

    A large maple — we call him the Captain — commands the backyard and provides welcoming shade for our deck ...

    A large maple — we call him the Captain — commands the backyard and provides welcoming shade for our deck. His leafy limbs rise high above our two-storey house and his girth and rugged character sugge ...

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