20 December

Winter Solstice 2024: The Sacred Tree

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Winter Solstice 2024: The Sacred Tree

Trees have always been part of our family. My father was a sawyer as well as a farmer. My mother grew up on the “Dust Bowl” prairies of the 1930s and for all her adult life planted and nurtured trees wherever she could. We still have a “quarter section” of boreal forest in the family. […]

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19 June

Summer Solstice 2024: Land Acknowledgement

Posted in Books, History, Nature, Photos, Reflections, Seasonal Messages

Friends and taxi drivers are always getting lost trying to find my address in Edmonton. In Boyle Street, the streets and avenues seem squished together; there are no straight lines. I used to blame it on the bend in the river. Turns out, it goes much deeper than that. As we approach this National Indigenous […]

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