Bittersweet reminders from a familiar forest 🌳

Plus: 3 discoveries from a month of deep reflection 🍃

I grew up in the most remarkable location. 🧡

When I was a toddler, my parents bought a house on the outskirts of Ottawa, in a new suburban development called Kanata. Our house, the first one on our side of the street, was built on the rim of a cul-de-sac, with train tracks on one side and the National Capital Commission Green Belt on the other. Eventual…