Status Updates From I was a teenage Katima-vict...

"Why is it that just when you start to know someone, it's time to say good-bye? Vikings. Sorcerers. Prisoners. Protestors. Virtually every Canadian--every damn one of us--is here because of adventure, either personal or ancestral. We are the children of adventure, all of us."

"Canada is somewhere still. The ambiguity of the word 'still' lingered, and I turned it over and let it fall. But even then, I knew that a forest is not a country, and a river is not an idea. In the margins of my journal, I later scribbled a message to myself: Canada is not a landscape."

"Suddenly, Katimavik didn't seem like such a risk-taking adventure. That's the problem with travelling. No matter how far you go and no matter how daring you become, you will always meet people along the way who have gone farther, done more."

"And we lay there, he and I, awake almost till dawn. And we filled the room with small, heroic, ordinary thoughts."

"I do enjoy meeting young people... Because you're still looking. Everything lies ahead for you. The good and the bad. It's all new and fresh and confusing, isn't it?"