THE NIGHT RIDE
Night riding can be eerie, there’s no question about that. Casting shadows as I pedal through the forest ...
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ALL Volume 16
A NATURAL TEACHER
Local hunter, fisher, conservationist, and author Ralph Shaw once said, "The role of the successful fisherman and ...
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DARK SCIENCE
[On Judgement Day] …men will cast away their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship—to the moles ...
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THE FOREST AS OUR WITNESS
The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is ancient. Cultures the world over document the presence of ...
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CRUCIAL AND COMPASSIONATE CARE
Since 2011, Victoria Hospice Society has been organizing the Cycle of Life Tour, in which people from all over ...
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WITH CHILDLIKE WONDER
Our trip to South Africa was twelve years in the making. In 2006, my mother returned to her native homeland to be ...
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THE GEM OF ISLAND MOUNTAINEERING
Mt Colonel Foster is among the most impressive peaks on Vancouver Island. Its east face rises over 1000 metres and ...
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STANDING TALL
Driving on Comox Road along the Courtenay River estuary and through the K’ómoks Nation’s Number 1 reserve, it’s ...
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CREATIVE CONTROL
Corwin Fox is very hard to get a hold of.
If you’ve emailed him recently, you’ve received an automatic reply ...
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ON THE RISE
The dough stretches and resists my hands as I roll it on the floured surface. As I work, the aroma of yeast ...
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VOTING FOR VITALITY
If there was ever a time to exercise your democratic right to vote, it's now. Across the globe, research has shown ...
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THINKING BEYOND BUSINESS
I enjoy a good local holiday, and one of the best things about living on Vancouver Island is the abundance of ...
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GATHERING WELLNESS
Growing up in the Comox Valley I have always been passionate about nature and the outdoors. Camping, hiking, ...
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ON ANY GIVEN THURSDAY
I came across a photo box recently containing pictures of a summer my family spent in a rented cottage at Penn ...
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THE CLARITY OF GLASS
I was sitting in a ceramics class attempting to blow into a hand-built vessel when the spark for glass blowing ...
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PREPARING FOR THE PRESENT
On a sunny afternoon six years ago while riding my motorcycle home from Campbell River on the Old Island Highway, ...
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SHUT IT DOWN
I am a true introvert, my husband a true extrovert. Which means we spend a lot of time telling each other how ...
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