Tag Archives: 2010

Great Big Walk Audio Update Day #18

Hey this is TA calling in from Day 18 of the great big walk. Or in Nepali Din otera. We’re at a place called Nasa Karka, so another Karka, another parking lot for yaks. It is our second wood in the campsite … Continue reading

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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.

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Visual Soliloquy #84 Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience…

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everest 2010 Photo Gallery

Here are some of the favourite images from TA’s Everest 2010 expedition.  To read training updates, dispatches from the mountain and follow-up posts, please click here:

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Visual Soliloquy #67 At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person…

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. –Albert Schweitzer

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Visual Soliloquy #66 The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch…

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. –Erica Jong

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Visual Soliloquy #65 The true measure of one’s worth lies not where you come to be at journey’s end…

The true measure of one’s worth lies not where you come to be at journey’s end, but in the lives you touch along the way. –Anonymous

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Visual Soliloquy #64 Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal…

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. –Eliza Tabor

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Visual Soliloquy #63 To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw,…

To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed. –Gretel Ehrlich

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Visual Soliloquy #62 Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. –Paulo Coelho

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Visual Soliloquy #61 We all have our time machines…

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. –Jeremy Irons

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Visual Soliloquy #60 All human wisdom is summed up in two words–wait and hope…

All human wisdom is summed up in two words–wait and hope. –Alexandre Dumas Père

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Visual Soliloquy #59 Our life is composed greatly from dreams…

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. –Anais Nin

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Visual Soliloquy #58 The harder I work the more I live…

The harder I work the more I live. –George Bernard Shaw

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Visual Soliloquy #56 Be careful what you water your dreams with…

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on … Continue reading

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Oma: Mountain of a Woman

While back in Edmonton this week, I had the wonderful fortune of placing my laptop complete with webcam into the lap of my Oma. It was a precious moment as she saw herself appear on the screen in front of … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy ##55 Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home…

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. –Matsuo Basho

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Visual Soliloquy #54 There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief…

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. –Aeschylus

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It’s Not About the Date

It’s not about the date. Or the presents. Or the food. Or the traditions. So then, what is this “day” we call Christmas all about? That’s the question I’m trying to answer as my family and I are celebrating “Christmas” … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #53 Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment…

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. –Jim Rohn

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Visual Soliloquy #52 Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth…

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. –Robert Neelly Bellah

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Visual Soliloquy #51 You can never step into the same river…

You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you. –Heraclitus of Ephesus

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Visual Soliloquy #50 Today is your day, your mountain is waiting…

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr Seuss

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Visual Soliloquy #49 Time is a sort of river of passing events…

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.–Marcus Aurelius

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Visual Soliloquy #48 The road of life twists and turns…

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.–Don Williams, Jr.

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Visual Soliloquy #47 The idea is to write it so that people hear it…

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. –Maya Angelou

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Visual Soliloquy #46 Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. –Arnold H. Glasow

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Visual Soliloquy #45 Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal…

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. –Wayne Dyer

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Wanted: Hat Options for the Hat Trick of the Americas

G’Day, The countdown to the Hat Trick of the Americas has begun and there is one critical decision left to be answered? Which hat should I wear for the climb? Which hat will be called to service on the volcano … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #44 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but…

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

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Visual Soliloquy #43 You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out…

You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out, and unless you simply forget about it and step up, you won’t even get off the ground. — Mike Borghoff.

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Visual Soliloquy #42

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. –Pablo Picasso

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Nose to the Grindstone

Buenos Domingo, Marian and I are stepping up both our physical training and our Spanish language training in the weeks leading up to our departure for Guatemala and Tajumulco. It’s time to put our noses to the grindstone! We’ve been … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #41

Just don’t give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. –Ella Fitzgerald

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Visual Soliloquy #40

…I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realised, than lord among those without dreams and desires. – Kahlil Gibran

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Visual Soliloquy #39

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. – Irish Proverb

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Visual Soliloquy #38

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. –Morris West

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Visual Soliloquy #37

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. –Bo Bennett

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Visual Soliloquy #36

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. –Carl Sandburg

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Visual Soliloquy #35

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. –Thomas Merton

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