So I’ve been listening to this song by Alberta country music star Paul Brandt (yah yah I know, you can take the girl out of Alberta but you can’t take the Alberta out of this girl! ) The song is called “The Journey” and it’s been my theme song since I discovered in on December 27th...

There was a huge log washed ashore by the Pacific Ocean - a quintessential west coast image forever sketched into the very fabric of my consciousness. 
I sat on it. 
"A decade of life in Vancouver” I thought to myself, despite the fact that I was km’s away dangling my feet off that log all the way up on Cortez Island.

“What now?” ...