Global Travel Stories

November 15, 2025

When Adam Shoalts closed A History of Canada in Ten Maps with the explorers’ first glimpses of the Pacific, it felt like a revelation

November 13, 2025

When I finished reading Adam Shoalts’ A History of Canada in Ten Maps, I couldn’t stop thinking about how much those early explorers and

November 10, 2025

“Every map tells a story. And every map has a purpose—it invites us to go somewhere we’ve never been.” — Adam Shoalts If you’ve

November 9, 2025

This morning, I rolled out my mat at Kind Yoga Society, a gentle sanctuary tucked into a quiet corner of Nanaimo. The room was

November 3, 2025

The Garden as Teacher Stepping into Abkhazi Garden in Victoria is like entering a sanctuary. The air smells of wet earth and cedar, the

October 23, 2025

October 14, 2025

Embrace kindness as a daily practice — a gentle force that heals, uplifts, and connects us to a more mindful life

November 7, 2022

“Would you go if you were me?” I asked the flight attendant at the Delhi airport, holding a one-way ticket to Kashmir. India was

October 25, 2022

There’s a quiet truth that reveals itself when you live close to nature — that the Earth doesn’t belong to us; we belong to

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