Jasper National Park

#OurWorldIsAwesome – Edition 23 | Context on this series – we live in a beautiful world and National Parks are akin to the crown jewels of this planet. These landscapes remind us of the fine balance and complexity woven into the fabric of the world around us. Every time I spend a while inside one of these places, I’m reminded of how precious that balance is, and how much it matters that we try to understand the complexity and our own small role within it. I think that’s what awe really is. We reach for the word “awesome” in the moments something helps us see our own insignificance — and windows into nature do that for me every time. So this is my small way of sharing it, and passing it along. It’s hard to visit Jasper and not reckon with the wildfire of 2024. The evidence goes on for miles — hillside after hillside of blackened, branchless trunks. It feels like walking through a forest graveyard. It was fascinating to understand the why. For thousands of years, the Indigenous people…