Boundless School Blog

Dear Friends of Boundless, We earned three Top-Impact Charity Awards this year, nationally and for Toronto, from Charity Intelligence. These awards brought many of you to our doorstep, and that’s a big deal. Your support sponsors countless stories like the one...

Dear Families and Friends of Boundless, On Friday, the second session of the boarding school began amidst a tempest of rain that finally brought relief to the Madawaska drought. This soothed me. Some neighboring tracts were ablaze. Imagine. In late October. Climate...

Dear Boundless Families: Your kids return from the Dumoine River in Quebec this afternoon. Two nights ago, I travelled to the river to surprise them. I arrived at their campsite bearing a bribe so I might be accepted into their tribe. Chocolate bars! As my canoe...

Dear Boundless Families: "Alive and well." "Settling in." "Getting the lay of the land." These clichés are all true when it comes to your kids in their first few days of boarding school. At this very moment, they are mastering the rapids on a day so stunning it...

Dear Friends of Boundless, I hadn’t led a Boundless trip since 2006, so when I stepped back into the role this past July, everyone braced for comical chaos. I was lured in by Padre Hernan Astudillo of San Lorenzo Church. This 62-year-old, still hanging onto his...

Dear Friends of Boundless: Someone needed to be in the city last week to prepare a group of really nervous young women and soothe their nerves before their upcoming adventure at Boundless. My colleagues reached deep into the dregs of their canoe barrels and pulled...

Dear Friends of Boundless and Family Members of Students: I offer up a few vignettes so you can be flys on the wall on a chilly day. Our property has transformed into a 600 acre slush puddle. There is mourning over this. I overheard Macky, the group leader and...

Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely on Friday to a stunning afternoon sky. I hung out with the kids a little on Friday and Saturday evenings. It is Sunday as I write, with a little time on my hands. Why not gossip a bit? A slew of new kids have brought...

Dear Boundless Families: Your kids built a bridge (see photo). Over a swamp. In the middle of a forest. Which is situated in a chilly and bugless heaven.  They dubbed it the "Bridge that Never Ends." They claimed it took forever.  In early October, Kevin, their...

Dear Friends of Boundless: The kids went home yesterday for a brief immersion in their urban realities - those same realities that furnished the reasons they came to Boundless in the first place. I worry. Silly old me. They'll be back on Halloween day, donning...