It is possible that you're not meant to get the giggles during meditation. I mean, I've searched stock photos on multiple occasions under "meditation" and everyone always looks skinny, serene, blissed out, and earnest. No one is giggling, as I did the other night, when the wonderful Susan Reifer led us through a metta (lovingkindness) … Continue reading When meditation cracks you up

"It takes a community to support and uplift a small business. It also takes a community to win a Small Business BC Award," says the Small Business BC award page, and your vote can make all the difference to your favourite entrepreneur. "It shows how much the business means to you, and could propel them … Continue reading Lift up small business stars! Vote for Amawilc for the 2022 Small Business BC Impact award

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pss-the-wedding-singer-tickets-264691016957 Tickets have gone live for our upcoming PSS performance of THE WEDDING SINGER! Space limited so get your tickets today at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pss-the-wedding-singer-tickets-264691016957?fbclid=IwAR0uwjxy3EafmbE9Z7Pmoj54QyYzK4dvjYIv3AmI_H6sdGjzfcMBof8NbNE Show date March 10th,11th,12th at 7pm A hilarious tale, set in the magical time of the 1980's - music is good - fashion is great - and love... is complicated PSS Presents … Continue reading Tickets on sale now for Pemberton Secondary’s show, The Wedding Singer

Weyakpa Najin Win (Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. I've shared her talks before, because she has changed the way I look at the world, and fed my hope for different possibilities, around climate and justice. In this talk, she speaks with … Continue reading When you ask an Indigenous grandmother “What could possibly go right?”, you better brace yourself

https://buildingmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Final-Mapping-Ecosystem-Guide-CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0-Handles.pdf Are you a healer, a builder, a disruptor, an emergency responder? You're needed. A storyteller? An experimenter? Yeah, we need you too. We all have a role to play. Or, as Pat McCabe phrases it, we all have a place on the sacred hoop of life. It can feel overwhelming when you first encounter … Continue reading Mapping our roles in social change ecosystems – bring your joy

I heard Eco with Em's Emily Ehlers on the Futuresteading podcast and have been following her ever since - how can you not crush on someone whose book is called "Hope is a Verb" and who decided to channel her climate anxiety into cute art that makes change feel feasible. Because, I think, most of … Continue reading Lunch Ideas…. and GO!

‘Unprecedented’ has become the new normal, says the SLRD's Protective Services department. In providing an annual recap to the Board last week, the team recounted that an Emergency Operation Centre was active for 121 days in 2021 - for three main events -- June heatwaves with surface flooding from extreme glacier and snowmelt conditions, summer … Continue reading ‘Unprecedented’: 19 evacuation alerts, 16 evacuation orders issued by SLRD last year, because CLIMATE

Thanks to a new Facebook page, For the Love of Food, local folks are sharing recipe successes, because sometimes, we all need a little help to get out of our food ruts... Thanks to Erica Hurtubise for sharing and to Vicki Powell for testing and sharing this one, from the Whitewater Cooks Together Again cookbook.

Today, we are midway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It's also known as Imbolc, or Brigid's Day, Groundhog Day, or Candlemas, depending on how your belief system skews. Essentially, it's the moment when daylight is lengthening, and we might see the first glimpses of the shift in seasons. The Sun’s path has … Continue reading What is a seed, but a package of hope with its own operating instructions