Meet Tessa DeSouza
Tessa is a Special Education Resource Teacher in Peterborough who happens to be a gold medal Masters division kayaking champion. Balancing these two passions can be challenging, especially when kayaking with alligators. When speaking with Tessa, who radiates warmth and positive energy, it’s clear her attitude allows her to face obstacles head on. Join Andrew and Carol as they learn more about Tessa – an advocate and role model for her love of sport, an advocate for children and lover of life and the outdoors.
1, Would you like to eat here? Tessa’s created a vision board in her mind and this is the picture of where she wants to travel to Crans-Montana, Switzerland!
2. Come and check out the Peterborough Canoe and Kayak club mentioned by Tessa https://pckc.ca/ – kayakers of all ages and experience levels are welcome!
3. Carol spoke about the power of reconnecting with one’s self through nature – as Mary Oliver did – in the podcast today. Here is a poem of Mary Oliver’s we hope you enjoy!
http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/maryoliver.html
The Journey
| One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do– determined to save the only life you could save.
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