It tells you what you're thinking and how.
When the Brits discovered this beautiful, blue, pristine lake in Alberta Canada,
(NOTE: The water is authentically blue and oh so clear you'd think that, by looking at it in real life, God photo-shopped this postcard-perfect view.)
guess what they named this breathlessly majestic body of water?
That lake is in Alberta, Canada and it is popularly knows as Lake Louise.
The lake was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939),[1] the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.
Did you notice how they named the lake after themselves? See how they immortalized their identity by pasting their names on a body of water nature has created?
Do you know what the original settlers of Canada, the Stoney Natoka Indians, named this lake when they first saw it?
They named it "Lake of the Little Fishes" maybe because they saw that it is a lake that has lots of little fishes swimming in it.
See how the Indians named this lake for what it is and not for what they want it to represent about themselves? See their absence of ownership?
See the mine-mine-mine-sensibility of the former?
See how the Indians named the lake based on how they saw it?
See how the Brits named the lake the way they wanted to see it?
How about you? Do you see things as they are or how you want to see them?
1 comments:
That looks like Moraine Lake. You can walk there from Lake Louise. There is a glacial moraine at the outlet of the lake that dams up the water. The turquoise color is caused by glacial silt (powdered rock) suspended in the water.
A photo like this was on the back of the Canadian dollar, last time I saw one.
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