Captured during my adventures at Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Often times body language speaks louder than words and when life gets busy we rarely take a minute to reflect and breathe. Every creature needs moments of stillness, where we can find our calm and ground ourselves amidst the chaos. Even the “monk-eys” are meditating to…
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Canada. Home of the polar bears, the Maple leaf, beavers, cold weather, polite people (and I could continue), and…the Gray jay. Out of the above list, odds are your brain was able to associate an image with each item, with the exemption of the last… the Gray jay. Until a couple of days ago I…
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This revelation came to me about two minutes before I started wring this post. That’s right, we’re on our last month until 2017. And because this year has been so unique, I’ve decided to list my highlights of 2016. 1. Olympics: This year’s Olympics in Rio, Brazil, was certainly unlike any that has ever happened…
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What do you call a person who’s flimsy and flat and fragile and fake? someone who hides behind a silhouette of what society wants them to be? one who doesn’t care about anything that actually matters? someone so two-dimensional they could be blown away by the wind? a person so unreal, the word “paper” is…
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As much as I am not a fan of starting to celebrate the holidays early, I am an early Christmas shopper. The earlier I’ve made my list, checked it twice and bought all of my gifts, the earlier I can relax and eventually begin to enjoy the season, once its time has arrived of course.…
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For the most part, you’re either team Apple or team Samsung; however, Google has joined the competition. With the company’s latest advancement in self-driving cars, universal wifi and Google VR, they’ve brought in a smartphone called Pixel. Ok Google, what’s this all about? It all comes down to this tech ecosystem that Google has been…
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At the beginning of high school, I was prepared for a wild ride filled with stress, frustration, and even anger. I was told that in grade 10, school was going to become a struggling time filled with 4 a.m. homework sessions, several cups of coffee per day, and taking solace from my friends saying “I…
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For as long as I can remember Harry Potter has been in my life. It started with my dad taking time at night to read the books before I could and then myself going on to reading all 7 another 3 times through. I grew up surrounded by the story and saw each movie that…
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Keeping up a structured fitness schedule is hard enough as it is, finding to pull yourself out of bed and haul your butt to the gym or the treadmill is a huge feat in itself, and on top of that, maintaining the motivation to push yourself to really make that workout effective is also challenging. I…
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Jambo! Habari Gani? Mzuri? Mzuri! And that was it. My level of competency in Swahili reached a grand level of four words. And that’s where verbal communication ended. I didn’t literally comprehend what the children were saying, but their eyes expressed all that needed to be heard. Our relationships weren’t based on anything that could…
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Disclaimer: For the purpose of this article, I will be using ‘holiday’ and ‘Christmas’ interchangeably because myself and my family celebrate Christmas and my knowledge of other holidays and celebrations during this period is too limited to speak to intelligently. Please don’t bring political correctness into this. To many people, the passing of Halloween signals…
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I know a little white cross, somewhere in France The grave of a little boy, in the meadows he used to prance Come to me my child; sit at my knee Let me mother you, as I once did, the day you opened your eyes: that long ago January You loved the white roses, but…
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The United States of America. Not only Canada’s neighbor, but also an influential and close friend to us in all regards. This past election, our friend is conflicted, divided, and in trouble. Thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest Trump’s presidential victory, chanting phrases like “No Trump! No KKK! No racist USA!”, with nearly half a…
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It is no question that getting an education after high school is expensive, but has it become so expensive that students are unable to afford the luxury of a degree. As the job market becomes more competitive going to university or college is a no brainer. How has the expense of university risen over the…
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The “I’ll do it tomorrow” mentality is something that all of us are familiar with, but why? We’ve all heard it multiple times that we should always always always focus on the now. Yet we all know, it’s not that easy. The thing about tomorrow is that it makes the perfect excuse for everything and,…
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