Canadian Living

Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days, he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams", which he named Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer-timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without.

Donner la vie, devenir parent, cela bouscule une existence. Notre manière de voir la vie, d’envisager l’avenir, d’organiser nos journées évolue au gré de la croissance du petit être aimé qui accapare tant de notre énergie. Pas toujours facile de concilier vie de famille et spiritualité...mais à y voir de plus près, la parentalité est assurément un lieu privilégié pour apprendre à aimer, et donc pour grandir intérieurement.

In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to allow us to see through the eyes of indigenous people. In it, he hits hard on matters of residential schools, the environment, suicide among indigenous youth, domestic abuse, and so on, but also writes poems of love and hope. Chief Laforme’s universal message is, “We should not have to change to fit into society, the world should adapt to embrace our uniqueness.”