by pattihenderson | Nov 9, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
As I sit in my cozy little apartment in Cochrane, watching the fluffy blanket of snow gradually thicken outside, I can’t help but think warm thoughts of my day of adventure yesterday at The Banff Mountain Festival. This day has long been in my calendar as “the day”...
by pattihenderson | Nov 1, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
On the way home last weekend from a Vagabond Photography adventure to Writing on Stone Provincial Park, I found this recently harvested wheat field dwarfed by an enormous, blue, staggeringly beautiful Alberta sky. I was amazed. And profoundly moved, as happens on many...
by pattihenderson | Oct 26, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
In a week where terrorism visited Canadian soil, forcing Canadians to question their safety perhaps for the first time, Martin Luther’s quote stands out as a challenge to all of us: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out...
by pattihenderson | Oct 19, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Author George R.R. Martin’s full quote goes as follows: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.” The past two days I was fortunate to find myself working at the Special Education Conference held at the stunning Delta...
by pattihenderson | Oct 12, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, and love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy Thanksgiving dear readers! As I stared out in awe at the breathtaking beauty on the road...