As a memory, Calgary consists of oil money and bright suns, faux cowboys and startling sunsets. It is a rich city that doesn't take itself too seriously.

It is the most American of Canadian cities.

As a province, Alberta is one filled with natural wonders and empty fields, drained faces and crowded roads.

“I’m learning how to see. I don’t know what the reason is, but everything enters into me more deeply and no longer stops at the point where it used to come to an end. I have an inner self that I knew nothing about. Now everything goes into it. I don’t know what happens there.”

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke