Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape.
~Terri Guillemets
Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature.
~Jeb Dickerson
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~John Lubbock
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.
~Hazel Lee
This team was coming in as we were flying out of Greenland-they traced some of our route so you can see some tracks my team made…a lovely piece-be patient as it is HD but some of the footage is gorgeous-it brings back floods of memories…enjoy!
Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
You are what you think about all day long.- Dr. Robert Schuller
Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.
~Author Unknown
During the darkest indigo midnight, yet will countless stars blossom.
~Dr. SunWolf
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
~Richard Bach
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
~Truman Capote
They who have a why to live can bear almost any how.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
~Latin Proverb
Starting to map out the training plan for my spring climbs of Mera peak, Island Peak, and Mount Logan. It’s good to have it take shape and it starts right now this week. Logan has a 10-15 hour summit day with a long distance of 13 kilometres of distance to cover at high altitude so I’m aiming high with the training. I’ll detail more of it in the next while but wanted to share the “napkin” version.
In the versatility of wanderlust
There lies the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious of adventure
Of life,
Of love,
Of Omas round the world
So filled with kindness
And the courage to nurture excellence towards the summit.
Can I Live?
Can I Aspire?
Can I Empower?
I am Thelma. You are Louise.
I like to dream with you my friends.
Of possibility.
To live.
To learn.
Alongside happy children and sprinkled donuts filled with
The curious power of imagination.
Asking how I poo on the mountain and what Tgate stands for…
I answer, they laugh.
Adults rarely talk of pee funnels, colourful treats, and being Totally Awesome.
I do. And it is fun.
And if it isn’t fun, why do it?
And if it is not true to me, why do it?
For verisimilitude was the word for me today.
Speaking truth to justice and dreams and wishing and hoping and wanting
All the young ones to dream bigger than those who’ve climbed the mountain before.
I had a great time presenting to the 450 or so junior high school students at St. Paul Junior High…they had some great questions to ask at the end…including “What was my favourite word and why?” I asked folks on Facebook what they thought my favourite word was and then used all of their suggestions to write the spoken word piece above.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
~Helen Keller
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. –Lillian Dickson
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
~Buckminster Fuller
The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.
~Fred Beck
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~Jean Baptiste Massieu
Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
Konbanwa,
Round six…time to guess what TA is climbing next…looking here for a list of my next three climbs (two have already been identified by dedicated guessers)…so you’re looking for the third and to submit all three in the correct order (i.e. the order I will climb them in)…if you have insider info, please refrain from guessing and please only guess a few times per day so we can keep it going for a few days…place your guesses in the comments section below.
Arigatou,
TA
Howdy,
Round five…time to guess what TA is climbing next…looking here for a list of my next three climbs (two have already been identified by dedicated guessers)…so you’re looking for the third and to submit all three in the correct order (i.e. the order I will climb them in)…if you have insider info, please refrain from guessing and please only guess a few times per day so we can keep it going for a few days…place your guesses in the comments section below.
Thanks,
TA
Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.
~Helen MacInness
Namaste,
Round four…time to guess what TA is climbing next…looking here for a list of my next three climbs (two have already been identified by dedicated guessers)…so you’re looking for the third and to submit all three in the correct order (i.e. the order I will climb them in)…if you have insider info, please refrain from guessing and please only guess a few times per day so we can keep it going for a few days…place your guesses in the comments section below.
Dhanybhad,
TA
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
~Annie Dillard
Hola,
Round three…time to guess what TA is climbing next…looking here for a list of my next three climbs (two have already been identified by dedicated guessers)…so you’re looking for the third and to submit all three in the correct order (i.e. the order I will climb them in)…if you have insider info, please refrain from guessing and please only guess a few times per day so we can keep it going for a few days…place your guesses in the comments section below.
Muchas gracias,
TA
Bonjour,
Clue #2…Time to guess what TA is climbing next…here is the second in a series of visual clues and you can try to guess what I am climbing next…looking here for a list of my next three climbs…so you must guess all three and in the correct order (i.e. the order I will climb them in)…if you have insider info, please refrain from guessing and please only guess a few times per day so we can keep it going for a few days…place your guesses in the comments section below. Merci for playing along.
TA
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston
OK folks…it’s that time again…time to guess what TA is climbing next…I’ll present a series of visual clues and you can try to guess…looking here for a list of my next three climbs…so you must guess all three and in the correct order (i.e. the order I will climb them in)…if you have insider info, please refrain from guessing and please only guess a few times per day so we can keep it going for a few days…place your guesses in the comments section below. Thanks for playing along.
Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right.
~Harry “Breaker” Harbord Morant
Dr. TA Loeffler talks to students at Sheshatshiu Innu School about her outdoor adventures.
By Michelle Osmond (MUN Gazette Oct. 10, 2012)
One of Dr. TA Loeffler’s favourite parts of her expedition on the Churchill River this past summer was “immersing myself in Labrador once more.”
As soon as the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation (HKR) professor and outdoor adventurer returned home from the Big Land, she was hoping to go back. Recently, she got her wish. Dr. Loeffler spent a day at Sheshatshiu Innu School visiting classrooms and talking about her countless expeditions thanks to a provincial contest.
Trisha Keough-Boyer, a graduate student in the master’s of physical education (MPE) program, is the program director with School Sports NL (SSNL). She approached Dr. Loeffler about being a “prize” in a recent School Sports NL Participation Nation Education Week contest. Dr. Loeffler enthusiastically agreed.
Ms. Keough-Boyer says they chose Dr. Loeffler with the hope of encouraging the students to participate in physical activity.
“We provide opportunities but feel that the students need to make the decision to participate. Students may encounter challenges in their lives that hinder them from being active, or they are simply choosing not to be active. SSNL believes that TA is a great role model for our youth. She has set her goals and keeps striving to achieve them.”
Dr. Loeffler has visited more than 80 schools in Canada and some as far away as Switzerland. That’s more than 32,000 students and counting. This was her first school in Labrador.
Dr. Loeffler showed the K-6 students her presentation We Are All Adventurers.
“I showed slides and told stories about my many climbs and explorations with the hope of inspiring them to explore, develop curiosity and be physically active,” she said.
After the presentation, Dr. Loeffler answered a lot of questions from the students ranging from how cold it can get on the mountains to how she travels there and how dangerous it can be.
She also presented Rising to the Challenge of Big Dreams to the students in Grades 7-12.
“I showed pictures and told stories in hopes of both sharing my broad experiences of exploring seven continents but also asking the students to consider what mountain, metaphoric or otherwise, they would like to aim for.”
While in Sheshatshiu, Dr. Loeffler was presented with a traditional tea doll that one of the community’s elders made.
“The tea doll is extra special to me because a tea doll is often taken when Innu folks go into the country, or as I would say, on expedition, so I appreciate the connection between their journeys on and their relationship to the land, since it is such an important part of both my personal and professional life.”
Playing host in Sheshatshiu was Memorial alumnus Greg Quilty, who has been teaching in Sheshatshiu since the school opened in 2009. Dr. Loeffler was pleased to see an HKR alum making a difference in his chosen community.
“It was great to spend the day with an HKR grad and hear how he was putting into practice all that he had learned at Memorial,” noted Dr. Loeffler. “He’s making good things happen in his school. It was a rich and full day in Labrador and I hope it opens more doors and that I can return and visit more schools and communities.”
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. –Frank A. Clark
Life is one big transition.
–Willie Stargell
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw.
TA Loeffler's Adventures that Move 