It has been one week since I returned from a wilderness journey that changed me in ways I’m still trying to understand. For several days, everything I needed fit into a blue barrel and a green dry bag—shelter, clothes, food, and a few humble essentials. The rest came from the land: wisdom from the water, courage from the trees, and truth from silence. Out there, far from electricity and pavement, life becomes beautifully simple. You wake with the sun and sleep with the stars.

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White Pines, Algonquin Park 2025 Stepping beneath the white pine trees in Algonquin Park felt like entering a vast, living cathedral. The...

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