While I grew up in a mid sized city, every Sunday of my childhood was spent on a drive to the countryside of South Western Ontario, some of Canada’s best farmland. and sometimes passing an Amish buggy on the road. As a young teen I spent a summer on a farm and learned to drive a tractor before I could legally drive on the road. Family holidays involved visiting grandparents on Georgian Bay and the Thousand Islands. After city life in Toronto and New York City, I later found myself in a village of 1,000 in Western Quebec and drove 35 miles each day to teach school in Ontario.
In early retirement, I spent time in British Columbia and traveled to the Arctic circle to see even more of Canada’s amazing landscape.
Love of landscape and all the creatures that inhabit it is a good start. But a new understanding and change of heart occurred when I encountered the work and writings of Thomas Berry. His students and executors kindly put me in touch with people and resources in the Toronto area that has allowed me to educate myself and determine that we must face the environmental crisis that we humans have created. This website is one small way of sharing what I learn on an ongoing basis - about the cosmos, planet earth, and all the cultural surroundings we create in it - for our good and our peril.
Vacations from a working life did involve ski hills in western Quebec and New England but my preference was for service roads, where I could meander slowly and enjoy mountain views. A sabbatical in England, holidays in continental Europe and a later business trip to South Africa were equally fulfilling.