The Concept of Abundance When we decided to get married we were beyond thrilled to share our love with all of our friends and family. What a gift it is that we can all gather in a meaningful place to express our devotion to one another. One thing that distressed us about our wedding was the image we had in our minds of a big pile of plates, crockpots, and other material wedding gifts. What we need in our lives is your love. The material things will always be there for us at the thrift store. Consequently, we have decided to ask that no one brings us gifts. When we chatted about what we would do to still follow the tradition of giving as we begin a new step in our lives we instantly knew what to do. Our good friend Rajan Rathnavalu is one of the founders of a Camrose based non-profit organization, NEWO . He says that their company's outlook is that when we receive abundance, we should give it back to the community. We knew that NEWO would know what to do with our abundance, a
Instead of hitting the books and spending reading week as academia would prefer, Emily and I headed for the Saddle Hills north of Spring Lake to the Trapper's Cabin on Jackfish Lake. Here are a few journal entries and photos depicting our experience. Preparations: February 20th 2017 : As part of our preparations for the two day trip, Emily and I baked some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. We came to eat far too much raw cookie, which speaks not only to my weak willpower, but also to my mother's delicious recipe. Luckily, I also managed to shovel in a few baked cookies as well, justifying my gluttony with the secret intent to carbo-load despite the fact that we were to ski a whole 10km the next day. Such a distance hardly requires a few face-fulls of cookie the evening beforehand. The Voyage. Tuesday, February 21st 2017 : We set off at about 1:15pm from the Spring Lake boat launch and hit the trail. After following Dad's snowshoe tracks for a good hour and a bi
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