Christmas in Newfoundland is a wonderous, wild and wooly experience! But the most amazing part of this experience is that the people who live here mirror in their spirits this wonderous, wild and wooly quality.
The Newfoundland people are without a doubt an insipiration for all Canadians and especially for our team and the challenge that lays ahead.
As an example; I met a Canadian author, Paul O'Neill, his publisher, Gavin Will of boulder publications and purchased a great history book that Paul wrote called 'The Oldest City'. Paul is 80 years old, he and Gavin offered to deliver the book to our daughter's home in St. John's, but I offered to make it easy and meet them at the local Chapters where they were doing a book signing the next day, they agreed. However in typical Newfoundland fashion the weather in all it's wild and wooly nature prevented us from connecting. Once the storm had abated, later that same evening, who should show up at our front door, bearing the signed copy of 'The Oldest City', but Gavin, making sure I had the book before Christmas... Only in Newfoundland....
I have experienced this many times, in many ways over the past 3 years of visiting this incredible, austere place we aptly name 'The Rock', for in the stone is etched a history of suffering and celebration that runs as deep as the Atlantic itself.
The CFPC - Climb For Prostate Cancer posters and brochures are being displayed in St. John's Newfoundland, at the Boston Pizza and also at the Eastern Health Centre. The brochures will be spreading the awareness, spreading the news and extending the journey from Coast to Coast.
From 'The Oldest City' Paul quotes in Chapter 10 - "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive" - Robert Louis Stevenson. Our journey, like our vision is full of hope, we have arrived....
To all of the CFPC Team members, from the eastern edge of North America..... as I stand on the rocks off Cape Spears, amidst the wind, snow and ice, the ocean spray breaking over the rocks below, to the East is Portugual, to the South the Eastern Edge of Argentina, where we will all be standing this time next year..... A Merry Christmas, talk to you all Jan 5th....
Kind Regards, Ken & Sue
The Newfoundland people are without a doubt an insipiration for all Canadians and especially for our team and the challenge that lays ahead.
As an example; I met a Canadian author, Paul O'Neill, his publisher, Gavin Will of boulder publications and purchased a great history book that Paul wrote called 'The Oldest City'. Paul is 80 years old, he and Gavin offered to deliver the book to our daughter's home in St. John's, but I offered to make it easy and meet them at the local Chapters where they were doing a book signing the next day, they agreed. However in typical Newfoundland fashion the weather in all it's wild and wooly nature prevented us from connecting. Once the storm had abated, later that same evening, who should show up at our front door, bearing the signed copy of 'The Oldest City', but Gavin, making sure I had the book before Christmas... Only in Newfoundland....
I have experienced this many times, in many ways over the past 3 years of visiting this incredible, austere place we aptly name 'The Rock', for in the stone is etched a history of suffering and celebration that runs as deep as the Atlantic itself.
The CFPC - Climb For Prostate Cancer posters and brochures are being displayed in St. John's Newfoundland, at the Boston Pizza and also at the Eastern Health Centre. The brochures will be spreading the awareness, spreading the news and extending the journey from Coast to Coast.
From 'The Oldest City' Paul quotes in Chapter 10 - "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive" - Robert Louis Stevenson. Our journey, like our vision is full of hope, we have arrived....
To all of the CFPC Team members, from the eastern edge of North America..... as I stand on the rocks off Cape Spears, amidst the wind, snow and ice, the ocean spray breaking over the rocks below, to the East is Portugual, to the South the Eastern Edge of Argentina, where we will all be standing this time next year..... A Merry Christmas, talk to you all Jan 5th....
Kind Regards, Ken & Sue
