Kate’s Truths

Having been surrounded by democracy and the Canadian Political system most of my life I am passionate about The Vote . I ran in a municipal election and won and lost it by 1 vote. That taught me the importance of 1 vote. People died so we can Vote – please ...

Coming to know my country by being present in the landscape of my adventure brought far more than scenery.   Having grown up on the Prairies in a tourist-farming-fishing town along Lake Winnipeg I came to understand its different landscape cultures. There are the fisher people who spent all seasons on the lake.  Their yards are full ...

When you think of the micro-community of family and how we live within it, it is my feeling that each of our personal stories become the tread or the fibre of its sustainability. A shared family, landscape and community are, for me, the three main characters in the building of my stories, the weaving of ...

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” ~Vince Lombardi   When I saw this quotation, I thought of all the people I have met in the Non-Profit World and how their passion and persistence always prevailed at some level, even if it was a baby step. They are very special folk. Sometimes they ...

  Reflecting Landscape What part of you is reflective of your landscape? I was born along the shores of a large body of water in the center of the country, an area considered the Prairies. I love wide-open skies with horizons that go on forever. On hot summer nights watching the sun set as the lake’s waves lapped ...