by Steven Gottlieb | Jul 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: I made up a scale a way back that combines water and air temperature to determine suitability for outdoor water-based activities. A combined 40 degrees is a cutoff. Anything below, it’s chilly and even a risk for mild hypothermia if you...
by Steven Gottlieb | Jul 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: I confess to dragging my butt when it comes to professional duties today. Its almost impossible to be productive when the Eastern Ontario Canadian Shield, in this 600-acre boreal forest running alongside a 24-degree river, is abloom and one...
by Steven Gottlieb | Jul 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear 2-Credit Families: “There is something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear” Name the band and the song, be the first to respond, and you win a boundless baseball hat. NO GOOGLING, WE ARE WATCHING. We’ll only notify the winner,...
by Steven Gottlieb | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely. I heard the traffic Gods were unkind, so special thanks for the diligence. The kids arrived to a kind of summer afternoon that reminds you of when you were a kid, biking to the store on crunchy gravel, buying popsicles...
by Steven Gottlieb | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: As I neared the Dumoine region territory on Saturday to meet up with the OE gang, the north wind started blowing. This cleared the humidity, and humility, of this motley crew. In what is normally a brutal 15km stretch of flatwater, the...
by Steven Gottlieb | Jul 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: Like a house guest you yearn hang out with the first few days, and soon transforms into the-thing-that wouldn’t-leave, summer arrived at Boundless. It’s hot. The road dust swirls at the slightest provocation. The gravel crunches...
by Steven Gottlieb | Jul 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: I am fascinated by group dynamics, and about how your kids are responding to valley-based education. Everything here is like an educational experiment. First timers are floored by the way we weave nature into classical learning, and about how...
by Steven Gottlieb | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely. Thanks for a speedy getaway this morning. Summer actually arrived in the Madawaska Valley today. It has rained so much this spring that I personally was a pencil-length away from enjoying my very own indoor swimming...
by Steven Gottlieb | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
One miserable December afternoon, on a Toronto side street melancholy with mud puddles, I divorced my daughter. During a heated driving lesson, I surrendered my beloved to an uncaring world, and it broke my heart. The cruel imperative to let go was modelled by my...
by Steven Gottlieb | Sep 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dear Boundless Families: The evenings have this chill about them now. It’s transition time in weather and in all things post Labour day. Butterfly time for most families. But your kids couldn’t care less in this moment. The two OE classes have been...
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