Lake Minnewanka

Lake of the Spirits Guestbook   Mar 10, 2015

Standing on the shores of Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, I silently appreciate the demonstration of brilliance nature is displaying for me, but a nagging sense of unease persists in my subconscious. That ancient part of my brain, often forgotten but never lost, is tingling with a sense of foreboding and anticipation. I slough it off as nothing; the wind I decide, or the charged air from the now clearing summer storm. As the wind howls through Devil's Pass, it glances my skin and sends an involuntary shiver through my body as it would in response to a gentle touch. The Nakoda called this place The Lake of the Spirits, and with that in my mind I reflect on the many thousands of years past and the people who settled on these shores and the possibility that I have just been welcomed into their final home.