In April, we posted a little note, inviting people to join us in a new offering slash experiment. Last week, we celebrated the conclusion of our weekly ‘Active Hope’ circle gathering. My co-facilitator, Monica Sander Burn, of The Society of Trees, wrote this reflection after we wrapped up our last gathering. The Society of Trees … Continue reading First Active Hope Climate Squad winds down.

Frances Dickinson, our beloved local founder of the Boomerang Bags project, is a fabric artist who offers indigo dyeing workshops and has made masks and amazing napkins, lunch wraps and beautiful things to repurpose fabric waste. She has been in the textiles & sewing business since 2003 and has lots of experience sewing, mending and … Continue reading Mending is trending, and Pemberton’s Fran Dickinson can help you keep your wardrobe in future-forward fashion

This is a guest post from Natalia Thiessen, the Education & Outreach Assistant at the Sea to Sky Invasive Species Council. Hit the breaks on invasive plants: Three ways to stop the spread of invasives in our tracks Sought out by mountain bikers of all ages and skill levels, the Pemberton area offers hundreds of … Continue reading Mountain bikers can be stewards too

Kukwstum'kacw to Holly Bikadi for permission to share this beautiful creative offering she composed. She writes, "My Thank you song this song came to me when I started to get better after not being well for a few years. I used plants the creator showed me to heal myself. Thank You Great Creator." https://www.youtube.com/embed/E5-lCp2cqsY Imagine … Continue reading Holly Bikadi’s Thank you song

Who likes Cherries ? asks John Tschopp. Not just me. Now I know why most of the fruit on my tree has little peck marks in it.John's friend Henk has a cherry tree in front of his house, which has proved very popular with the birds in the neighbourhood. Meet the community. American Robin. Photo … Continue reading Everybody likes cherries. Including these birds.

Bring a mate and join our mate (and most recent guestagrammer) Troy Knecht for some great times on the Whistler alpine trails Saturday July 30th. Plan is to catch the gondola and peak chair and to casually hike the high note and harmony lake loop trails as a group, followed by a bite to eat … Continue reading Men’s Saturday Social, July 30

I often feel like I might be the last lonely person still worrying about SARS-CoV-2... and recently, it occurred to me that there was a better way to approach my worries - I could shape it as a question. I like this art. It injects a pause for me... when you put it like that... … Continue reading Brace for contact? Or soften, breathe, relax? How are you holding yourself these days? And: summer plans for the Wellness Almanac – a delicious pause of the blog, with all offerings moving to instagram for our short summer attention spans. Reach out if you wanna ‘gram for us for a week!

So, I've still been wearing my fleecy pants all through June, but Environment Canada has advised I can kick those into the laundry basket this weekend, as summer lands with a heat blast. It actually comes with a warning... because, of course, it's 2022, and everything seems to come with a caveat these days... to … Continue reading Quick, dig out the sunscreen, we’ve got a heatwave for the weekend

Today, to honour the solstice and acknowledge National Indigenous People's Day, I went to yoga. That's pretty middle-aged middle-class white woman, isn't it? Should I have proven my allyship by doing something more overt, or more self-flagellating? I did wear my "áma s7at̓sxentsína" t-shirt, under a sweater and down jacket, mostly because I love it, but … Continue reading Happy solstice. Happy National Indigenous People’s Day

What Troy Knecht offered us last week, during his instagram takeover, came from the pain of lived experience and loss of a loved one. And he's not alone.As he shared in his post, below, about his 24 hour run, many people reached out to him to share that they, too, had lost a loved one … Continue reading Struggling is not failure. Struggling is a signal, to ask for help