Tourism for Peace

It’s Remembrance Day in Canada today, and it’s impossible to simply “remember” the past right now without being hyperaware of everything that’s happening in the world in the present. The idea of tourism as a path for peace is something I’ve been passionate about since coming into the tourism industry. In my early days as […]

We Know How This Ends

We already know how this ends, so why do we keep playing along? Is there not enough darkness in the world already? Is there not enough pain, grief, death, injustice, suffering yet? The worse it gets, the worse it gets. And the harder it is to get out of. We already know how this ends, […]

Monastery Mode

I wait for God But He’s not in a hurry So maybe, I shouldn’t be either.

A Piece of Eternity

Last Thursday I put my phone on airplane mode and set my life on monastery mode. I spent four nights – three full days – at a Benedictine monastery situated on a dairy farm in the hills above Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. I settled quite easily into monastery life, attending the many services each day […]

Off The Grid

Sometimes you need to go off grid to get back on track. For a while now, I have been feeling a strong need for a retreat, to practice stillness, to wait, to be rather than do. In her book, “When the Heart Waits,” Sue Monk Kidd writes, “Aligning ourselves – heart, body, mind, and spirit – into […]

War, Peace, Society, and Space Robots

In university I took a fascinating course called “War, Peace and Society.” We always used to joke that the class should just be called “War,” as we never made it through the “war” part to talk much about “peace and society.” In retrospect I realize the thing about peace is that it can’t really exist without […]