Bracebridge

One of the most beautiful weeks of the year, I think.

And I spent the weekend up in Bracebridge.

Beautiful part of the world.

My nephew, Daniel, married young Molly.

So

was Patty, and...

No, just got to give a huge shout out to Mike and Catherine Hansen, who were Molly's parents, who were the big hosts because they're from Bracebridge and played a couple of games of golf with Mike, which was quite amazing.

Played South Muskoka.

[gentle music] Welcome to Abridged, a podcast on everything Bracebridge, with your host, me, Mayor Rick Maloney.

Well, welcome to another episode of Abridged, and I have a first-time guest, and someone who I've known for a long time, who actually got me to wear high heels at one point.

Yes.

We are an organization that is meant to be serving community, right?

Mm-hmm.

We're a charity, which means that we're accountable to the community, and we do a lot of outreach, and the primary beneficiaries of our work are women and girls and their families, but because we're a community organization in Bracebridge, centered in Bracebridge and reaching the region of Muskoka, that's a lot of other people that are involved, right? And people don't live in isolation, so I think the Walk a Mile was a really good example of a community, a fun community event that we were doing to raise awareness-

Mm-hmm

... around issues that are often hidden.

so and we only went for like maybe three or four hours so it just seemed like a bit of a splurge if you will but i would definitely go back in fact we're going to be booking they have campsites there so people go camping there um we're going to look into it it's up

like Muskoka area right it's in Bracebridge nice

drive like right off the highway good day trip out of the GTA definitely one of like our high memories with like our kids and yeah we really enjoyed it they loved it They asked to go back all the time.

And

Uh, but then they finally managed to get one of the, uh, uh, one of the lines go or one of their, one of their, uh, phones finally starts working.

And so it's like 9-1-1, what's your emergency? Hello, my friends and I are trapped in a cottage west of Bracebridge.

Two of them went out into the fog and have gone missing.

We need help.

Also, it was just fun

in regards to Canada.

It does say way earlier than Bracebridge.

It says like between the Canadian weather and soil composition in the area, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Who did, who did you play in the finals in the-

Uh, Bracebridge.

Oh, nice.

Okay.

Yeah.

Were they hot?

Bracebridge?

No, the, the pants.

And I'm here with

Happy Hanna, who is in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada, half an hour away from you.

Yeah.

Beauty day.

Like what a beautiful practice to wake up and to realize that actually we are a spark of the divine, right? We're not God, we're not, you know, obviously, but we're made of not the same quantity, but the same quality.

Our soul has the same quality, right? As divinity, as the divine.

just obviously a much infinitesimal you know small quality and so when and if we can that's when we start to wake up and realize hey this blonde-haired woman in Bracebridge I'm looking at on the screen she's also an

Atma

Um, I, uh, I live in Muskoka now during the summer, so I, I brought it up there to my cottage and, and just basically had a, had a good time on the dock near the water with, uh, with family and friends.

Um, prior to that I took it into Bracebridge and, and showed it off to the community and, and kids a little bit.

And then we went on the, uh, Winona steamship for a couple hours and, and toured Lake Muskoka, and then, then it was back to the dock.

So incredible day.

And so when I realized that there was a few things that I was running low on, I realized the issue of being up here, of not being able to get high-end supplies and not being able to get them easily.

So really, even Bracebridge is not really great for those kinds of options.

So once I found out that Emma was here, that was just such a godsend because otherwise I was just, whenever I would head back into the city, into Toronto, I would try to do all my art supply shopping then and make sure that I was geared up before I came back here.

So it was like the one piece of this paradise up here It was the one piece that was like a little bit of a hitch for me.