My husband ran into mutual acquaintance the other day, and asked "how are you?" to which he was answered, "we got a new electric car". Which I thought was a curious response. Then I read this quote from the writer Jeanette Winterson, and it made more sense. A darling friend of mine from high school, … Continue reading Sit by candlelight a while

The drama class at Pemberton Secondary School presents Rogers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. Tickets $15 and available only on Eventbrite. Performing Dec 12th and 16th at Whistler: whistler - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/765736447327?aff=oddtdtcreator and Dec 14th and 15th in Pemberton: pemberton - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/765729677077?aff=oddtdtcreator

I love the way the Pemberton and District Museum and Archives is being used more and more as a venue for a range of events, from the Halloween celebration to Date Night, to the forthcoming Warmth, Water and Wilderness art show, presented by: The Creative Cupboard Art Club See all the details at https://www.facebook.com/events/3123229604639058/?ref=newsfeed and … Continue reading The Creative Cupboard Art Club presents Warmth, Water and Wilderness, a free art show at the Museum, Saturday Dec 9, 6:00 – 7:30

The Pemberton Dance Studio presents “The Story of the Nutcracker” - an adapted classical ballet set to original Tchaikovsky music featuring local young dancers and professional ballet dancers from Vancouver. The performance will run in 2 acts with intermission. Approximate duration of the show is 1 hr and 30 min. Doors open at 5:30 pm … Continue reading Holiday tradition with a Pemberton-twist: Pemberton Dance Studio presents The Nutracker

We are 14 days and 12 poems in to an experiment in sharing sound with each other - the sound of our voices, offering something that has resonated or delighted or supported us - a poem, a quote, a thought, a song... and I'm happy to keep it going, and invite as many voices in … Continue reading this is your invitation – lend your voice, share a poem

I've been thinking about the word "influence" and how much it has taken on a different cast, since the rise of social media. It's become a kind of commodity, a thing people covet, and that they use, when they have it, to get other people to covet things. (Oh capitalism, you really are a strange … Continue reading Lisa Sambo reads Dirt Prayer by Jess Housty

On Wednesday afternoon, I got the most delicious and funny email from Melissa Darou, a local mama, writer, poet, and swimmer, who just completed a masters thesis on the ecological benefit of taking the perspective of water, which is one of the most beautiful and creative things I've read recently. Here is her offering. From … Continue reading Melissa Darou shares one for the introverts, “The Art of Disappearing”

Stewardship Pemberton has been programming awesome monthly socials with their Green Drinks, ie green ideas over drinks, at Town Square. December's offering takes place Monday, December 11th, 6:30pm with a conversation on “Grizzly bears, barometers of wilderness and the health of ecosystems” with Allen McEwan. Allen McEwan has been an active conservationist in the Pemberton … Continue reading Green Drinks discusses Grizzly Bear conservation with Allen McEwan, Dec 11, 6:30

I think I dropped into a meditative state listening to Tamara Beaton read her offering to our Secret Association of Poetry Appreciators - because I was utterly surprised when I listened a second time to discover the recording was only 30 seconds long. Perhaps this is the whole secret of meditation, and why my "I … Continue reading This might be the most expansive 30 seconds of your day. Tamara Beaton reads the poem “To Meditate”