#13 - Boys to Men
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe Sunshine Valley is...
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Connor Mason
Jan 24
#12 - 50th Anniversary
My father had only barely managed to convince my mother to retire to SV in the first place. Once they did, she never looked back and they...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#11 - Remembrance Day
My father is a veteran, as were a number of others at Sunshine Valley. Each year, along with a contingent from the Sunshine Valley...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#10 - Sweet Sixteen
Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#9 - Boys Return
“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#8 - Agamemnon’s Feast
Both mother and father liked to entertain. The A-frame cabin in the woods was the scene of a monumental roast which was days in the...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#7 - The Eternal Flame
My father stood there before me, in front of the A-frame in Alpine, where he greeted me again for the first time in eight years. My first...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#6 - Don Quixote
In the intervening years, at the ripe age of 62, father had initiated, with a small band of intrepid members, the Sunshine Valley Fire...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#5 - Mid life. To Tokyo
Having now left home already for some years, with two sons of my own, I returned for a visit to the A-frame cabin in Alpine, with two...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#4 - The Remains of the Day
Our lives are a collection of days. Each is a gift. Yesterday does not exist, nor does tomorrow. In each day, there are moments in time...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#3 - On scythes and hammers
My cousin’s family also built a cabin, also in Alpine, along the river. They lived in Kerrisdale but without fail spent weekends and more...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#2 - Youth
The vision of Mallory, questing repeatedly for the summit of Everest, which became his cenotaph, his immortality, disappearing into the...
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Patrick Bonney
Jan 24
#1 - Remembrance of Things Past
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are we...
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