Boundless School Blog

Dear Boundless Families: All the kids have returned safely to port, heroes in their own minds (the only minds that really matter). By this standard, things are pretty awesome, and the property is abuzz with beehive-like energy and giddiness. I joined two...

Dear Boundless Families: What can be better for a outdoor school than a sunny August 5th in the Madawaska Valley, where the fish are jumping and the cotton's high?  An empty outdoor school, that's what.  The livin is easy (ish). All four cohorts are gonzo getting...

Dear Boundless Families: Summer decided to pay us a visit today for a change. When we looked at the 5-day weather forecast before the journey began, it was pretty grim. And yet, every day has had its ample sunshine and the rains simply haven't come. It's turned out...

Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely. About three quarters of the heebee geebees are already gone. A nice feeling permeates the property right now. One quarter are still finding their resolve - and they will. But not quite out of the woods just yet, if...

Dear Boundless Families: The Young-ins returned safely very late Saturday night bearing tales of fortune and valour and insanity. More on this in a moment. The Elders finished the river last night and camped over at Driftwood Provincial Park. I was with them the...

Dear Boundless Families:When an astronaut first returns to our atmosphere, the heat from the friction of re-entry is so intense that there is a 7 minute window when all communication with earth is impossible. Anxious support crews and families have to endure acute...

Dear Boundless Families: The weather gods had a major teenage hissy fit this morning and dumped a deluge on your kids. Like all teenage hissies, it passed. Its aftermath left a group of kids who are getting more intrepid by the second. But their emerging confidence...

Dear Boundless Families: Both groups arrived safe and sound, and to a blue summer-of-your-youth kind of sky that made sad I grew up. It was great to be at the Toronto pick-up this morning - to witness the unique moments that reveal so much in an...

Dear Boundless Families: Both cohorts return to port after their stints in the wilderness in a matter of hours. They will celebrate their accomplishments with a feast of beast, the luxury of a bed and porcelain toilets, and with happy tears that will flow like the...

Dear Boundless Families: Battered, but far from shattered, both groups got hit a few days ago by a tempest cast down by Zeus himself. 15 millimeters of rain in 15 minutes reminded the kids just how insignificant they are, and just how indifferent the world can be....