Thursday, January 3, 2013

Remembering those we lost during the year

We at Bow Narrows Camp are blessed to have known a great many wonderful people. They are our guests, friends, staff, fellow outfitters, suppliers and merchants, and our family.
Some of these dear, amazing people passed away in 2012 and we sorely miss them. We miss their laughs and smiles and how their passion for the outdoors and their families inspired us.
We have grieved since their passing and have thought a lot about those qualities that so typified them: their resilience, humour, compassion and optimism.
Yet, we know that none of them would have wished sadness upon us. And so, after awhile, we come to the realization that there is nothing to do but to carry their memories forward and to treasure every moment with the others we still share this life with.
It makes me think of this saying:

Yesterday's history,
Tomorrow's a mystery,
Today is a gift -- that's why it's called 'the present.'

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