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Summer Reflections in Themes

Each week of the summer, at camp, we have a theme meal. The staff make decorations, pretty-up the lodge, and everyone gets into costumes. It’s a wonderful excuse to have fun, without having to explain yourself too much.
At the start of the summer, we, as a staff group, decide what the week’s themes will be […]

Visual fruits of a labour loved

For your viewing pleasure, there are four pictures of the more than three hundred I’ve taken so far:

This one was taken at the Assiniboine Park flower gardens, right next to the Sculpture garden.

At my first real trek to the barn all summer, and I got to help the kids learn how to groom the […]

Picture-perfect learning

Investments, investments, investments.
This is my newest acquisition. It is a digital SLR.
I’m doing well at Camp, it’s been about seven weeks for me. There have been so many new responsibilities to learn and so many more subtleties to leadership that I was unaware of. What can I say? I’ve never felt comfortable with being a […]

The One-year-old Blog

I have been a blogger for just over a year now.
With many different topics written about, and many different pictures shown, I feel that this crazy exercise in free-lance journalism and creative writing is only starting. Looking back, I can see that much of the content was un-proofed, and more often than not, written quickly […]

The Sun is the same, in a relative way

So what have I been up to in the last month?
Man, I wish I could say it was exciting or riveting, or “blog-able”, but it’s all in perceptions. I suppose I have done quite a bit of things, I just haven’t bothered to document them.
I returned to the activity of running, I Incorporated a routine […]

There’s got to be more than colouring inside and outside the lines

I thought about thinking about things tonight.
I used to have thoughts on things. I used to pretend to have insights. Now I just feel pretentious.
Maybe I’m just tired.
Part of me is real curious to why I go about at the pace I’m going. What are the goals I had intended to achieve?
Are they all accomplished; […]