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I enjoyed a lovely lap on the North Head Trail today-it had been too long!I enjoyed both attending and photographing a women’s chain saw workshop yesterday. It was sponsored by the Becoming an Outdoors Woman program. I brought a camera along and it was a challenging activity to capture as I had to avoid getting hit by falling trees, getting oily sawdust on my lens, and trying to capture faces in the midst of folks wearing fairly intensive PPE. I wanted to capture a mini story for each participant about their experience of using a chainsaw. Here’s one of the attendees in action.Proud of HKR 2545/3220 student performance yesterday. 3 degrees, wind to 60 km/h, & rain. We were out practicing their outdoor living & leadership skills & from the smiles-rocking it! Warm, dry, & comfortable in foul weather-that's adventurous learning at its finest! @memorialuniversity @memorialustudentsWe were driving home from teaching outside, looking forward to a hot dinner, and looked over at Long Pond. It was like glass and we both said, “Let’s go paddling.” The pond was three feet higher than yesterday and we shared its glassy surface with muskrats, ducks, and ducklings. A truly peaceful end to a lovely albeit cold and rainy day out. The sun may have even peaked out for a minute or two.When a big view makes you feel small on the outside and big on the inside.TA’s Facebook Page
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Visual Soliloquy #97 A dream you dream alone is only a dream…
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. –John Lennon
Visual Soliloquy #96 A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space…
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. –Gloria Steinem
“I’m like a piñata for a grizzly bear”
I want to grow up and be Rick Mercer. If I could design the ultimate job for me, it would be what Rick Mercer is doing with his show, “The Rick Mercer Report”. It’s funny, educational, and moving all in … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged Bungee Jumping, Rick Hansen, Rick Mercer, The Rick Mercer Report
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Borrowing Discipline
My Buddhist refuge name is Tsultrim Mig Gya. It means Discipline Great Vision and represents what my teacher saw as the path to my enlightenment when I took my refuge vow in 2005. It was a time of great personal … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Life
Tagged 2011, Blue Monday, Buddhist, discipline, life lessons, New Year's Resolutions
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Visual Soliloquy #95 When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do…
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. –Walt Disney
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Kilimanjaro, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #94 Any place worth its salt has a ‘parking problem’…
Anyplace worth its salt has a ‘parking problem’–James Castle
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Kilimanjaro, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #93 We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are…
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. –Tony Robbins
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Kilimanjaro, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #92 Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something…
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. –Jean Paul Richter
Making Taking the Stairs (or training) Fun
I love this! How many ways can we think of to make taking the stairs fun? I imagined different things to discover as we climb the stairs (that can only be discovered on the stairs) like fun, colourful doors to … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #91 Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go…
Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”–Karen Ravn
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Kilimanjaro, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #90 Risk, there is no real living without it. Die we all must, but try to knock all risk out of our lives…
Risk, there is no real living without it. Die we all must, but try to knock all risk out of our lives and we lock ourselves tighter and tighter into a safe, comfortable, deadly box, and we die too, without … Continue reading
Looking for Windhorse Photo Gallery
Here are a few of my best images from the Looking for Windhorse Expedition–A 1200 kilometre journey from Lhasa to Kathmandu in mountain bike.
Posted in Photo Gallery, Tibet Bike
Tagged 2011, Everest, Lhasa to Kathmandu, Mountain Bike, Tibet
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Looking for WIndhorse II
Prayer flags are often called Lung-ta or Windhorse in Tibet and Nepal. One traditional prayer flag design has a windhorse in the centre and the Four Dignities (Lion, Tiger, Garuda, Dragon) in the four corners. As some of you will … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Everest 2010, Everest-007, Life, Tibet Bike
Tagged 2011, Everest, gratitude, photography, prayer flags, teachers, windhorse
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Visual Soliloquy #89 The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives…
The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~Robert Brault
Visual Soliloquy #88 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race…
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells
Tajumulco Photo Gallery
A collection of some of my favourite images from our volcano climbs in Guatemala and Tajumulco, the highest point of both Guatemala and Central America.
Posted in Photo Gallery, Tajumulco
Tagged 2010, climb, Guatemala, Hat Trick of the Americas, volcano
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Visual Soliloquy #87 When one’s lung-ta is low obstacles constantly arise. When lung-ta is high good opportunities abound…
When one’s lung-ta is low obstacles constantly arise. When lung-ta is high good opportunities abound…–Unknown
Visual Soliloquy #86 Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be…
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. –Anna Freud
Visual Soliloquy #84 Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience…
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted in Everest 2010, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, Everest, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #85 My profession is to always …
My profession is to always find God in nature. – Henry David Thoreau
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #83 Nothing will come of nothing. Dare for mighty things…
Nothing will come of nothing. Dare for mighty things. – William Shakespeare
Posted in Everest 2010, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, climb, Everest, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Aconcagua Photo Gallery
Here are some of my favourite photographs from my climb of Aconcagua in December of 2006. To read the dispatches from the mountain, please click here.
Posted in Aconcagua, Photo Gallery, Photography
Tagged 2006, Aconcagua, Argentina, photography, Seven Summits
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Over the Hill and Picking Up Speed
For the first time in my life, yesterday, I felt “middle-aged.” And I actually said it aloud. What prompted me to say that? Flying like a projectile down an icy slope on a slippery piece of plastic–that’s what did it. … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #82 The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play…
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. –Arnold J. Toynbee
Posted in Newfoundland, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Newfoundland, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #81 The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water …
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. –Henry David Thoreau
Posted in Newfoundland, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Newfoundland, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #80 Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted…
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. –Mary McCarthy
Posted in Newfoundland, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Nature, Newfoundland, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #79 Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing…
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. –Bill Cosby
Visual Soliloquy #78 Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat…
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. –Jean-Paul Sartre
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, photography, Quotes, Travel, Vietnam
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Visual Soliloquy #77 Three Rules of Work…
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.–Albert Einstein
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #76 To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle…
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. -Albert Einstein
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Hat Trick of the Americas Redux
Three summits. Four and a half years almost to the day. Nearly 25,000 meters of elevation gain. Mountains of learning in each step. Summiting North America June 26, 2005 The alarm went at 6. All quiet outside. A good … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #75 Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say…
Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. –Emily Dickinson
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #74 Simply the thing that I am shall make me live…
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.–William Shakespeare
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #73 Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you…
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #72 Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world…
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. –Alan Alda
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Guatemala, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel, Xela
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Visual Soliloquy #71 Keeping Taglu in My Heart
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. –Marjorie Garber
Visual Soliloquy #70 There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope…
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. –Bern Williams
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Guatemala, Nature, photography, Quotes, Santa Maria, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #69 Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles…
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. –Mary Schmich
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, Antigua, Guatemala, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #403: The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action…
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. – Madame de Stael
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2012, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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