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Feb 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What should you do if you're caught in a storm?
Blocks cut from the snow, angled, and laid next to each other. Image
Trimmed to lean on and support their neighbors, they spiral together, upward and inward. Image
Snow fills the cracks in their structure, the spaces between them, and they melt together.
We are cut from the same snow.

Support and lean on neighbors.
Fill the cracks between neighbours.

Shelter from the storm. Image
The Canadian Rangers know it’s about community. They know it’s about supporting your neighbor.

Listen to Master Corporal Dinos Tikivik.
Listen to the Canadian Rangers.

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