Kai Millyard, friend

After Pegi's diagnosis, she decided she wanted to spend as much of her time as possible out in nature. So in the Spring we went birding at the Minesing marsh. In June we went birding on an overnight trip and a very early morning in the grasslands of the Carden Plain. And in August Pegi joined us for a hard-core canoe trip in the very remote Wabakimi Provincial Park where she'd paddled with Phil, Chris, Alex and us 28 years earlier. This trip was no walk in the park. The wind was in our faces every day, but Peg dug into the waves with gusto and hauled over the dozens of portages like the rest of us. The sun and the wilderness were magnificent, and Pegi took it all in. Marvelling at the boreal forest ecosystem, she alternated between exclaiming about everything she was seeing, and spending lengthy quiet times observing the mink, the moose, the birds, the water, and the pines. I'll remember a lot about Pegi, but the way she experienced the world on that trip I will remember forever.