Steve shares his thoughts and experiences living at the end of a dead end rural road during the harsh, beautiful and unpredictable Manitoulin Island winter.
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A while back I got an email from a young man named Shane, and his questions took me back 30 years. Shane wants to build a home and life in the country, living deliberately close to nature and being as…
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If, as philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote, you feel your life is one of “quiet desperation”, you’ll get something from this video. It’s the story of my son Robert, and his quest to forge a life for himself beyond the…