Articles Archive for January 2009
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To portage and to paddle thorough the Canadian wilderness is incredibly beautiful and rigorous. If you haven’t tried it you really should, just because there are some beautiful places that you have to paddle for many miles to reach. Having paddled and carried your canoe and food and tent and gear to those places somehow makes them even more beautiful and more enjoyable. O how sweet is the sleep I have enjoyed on a bed of pine needles, on a rocky point, in a pristine Canadian lake, under a waxing …
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They say that tucked away in a little mountain pass in Colorado is a very beautiful but humble chapel. It’s a lovely little church in a breath-taking setting – a gathering place – a place of worship for the people that live there. But it has no lights. It has only pegs along the wall. The worshipers must bring their own lanterns and hang them on the pegs. If they don’t bring their own light or if there are only a few of them it will be dark and gloomy …
