Penasi Walk humble experience
After his father introduced him, Lyle Fox stood up.
His left foot still bandaged, he carried his 6-foot 5-inch and 225-pound frame across the stage to the podium, where he laid out his speaking notes.
He looked down and remained silent. The audience, who had gathered at the gymnasium at the Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School (DFC) to hear him after he began walking from Sioux Lookout to Thunder Bay, could only watch as the young man pursed his lips, took two deep breaths, and pursed his lips again. Still he did not speak.
I am so tired of losing people I am only in my late 40s but it seems as though most of the people I grew up with my age and even younger are passing away...
I feel like a survivor at times and there is good reason for that. As an Indigenous person living in this time and country I have seen so much happen over...