Here’s an excerpt from Linda’s article ‘A Healing Journey…By Design’ in this month’s MOTIVATED Magazine.
Three moose, nine deer, three black bears, six or seven foxes and an eagle’s nest, with eaglets peeking over the top. Going over the list of wildlife sightings while waiting for my flight to take me back to Toronto, I remember the Caribou tracks and the jackfish we saw in the shallow water in front of Kaaren’s cabin.
It’s been another good trip back home to the Red Lake in Northwestern Ontario where I was born and lived until age seventeen. Now, on June 15, 2011, sitting in the Winnipeg airport after the nearly seven-hour car ride from Red Lake, I reminisce about the events of the past six days.
Kaaren invited us to go to her cabin, a two and a half hour trip by water and land. We left around 6 pm giving us plenty of time to get there since that far north, darkness does not fall until around 11 pm. The bush was lush and bursting with life, with familiar fragrances. The first portage was a rugged game trail created by the hooves of many moose, to the place where a canoe was hidden in the tall grasses on the shore of a small lake. Pollen from the spruce trees lay like a golden topping on the surface of the water. There was no wind, so the water was a mirror reflecting the trees, the sky, and the clouds. We paddled to the second portage. An aluminum skiff with an outboard motor waited at the end of the path and transported us onto a large, perfectly calm, vast body of crystal clear water. The lake we promised to keep a secret. The traditional land of the Anishnabe
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