On February 23rd, 2017, I will be speaking at Pecha Kucha Winnipeg – an event organized by the Manitoba chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada. Amidst simply trying to conquer my stage fright, I will be centering my talk around the subject of “Contemplating Contemplation”; weaving in stories and insights garnered from the several months of traveling around remote parts of western Canada by bicycle on my Pedal Powered to the West bike tour.
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2015: it has been a year of deep valleys and high peaks for me, both literally and figuratively.
It began in the hospital, at the bedside of someone I deeply care for. Here, winter and spring blurred by slowly in a haze of emotion, my life taking on a holding pattern as I entered a full-time support role for those around me. The next thing I knew, it was summer. At this point, the health challenges still had not gone away, but they had changed and those of us intimately…
A year ago, I toured the Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada, on four wheels. Tomorrow, I will begin touring it on two wheels, and that’s just the start of the adventure I am planning. I am hopping on a train with my bike in a few hours – the first stop is Jasper, but further regions I have in mind for this trip are also the Haida Gwaii, Kluane, and Vancouver Island. Plans are liable to change (read: evolve) depending on the unpredictable nature of things (weather,…