https://www.instagram.com/p/CIThZQcB7Hz/ When the library issued a request at the beginning of December, to help decorate their tree, I was inspired. I mean, how can I not, when the library literally responds to every single request I ever make from "can you please print out this return label" to "can you please get in this obscure … Continue reading Hang a poem, a wish, a compliment, on your tree this year

"There's a romantic idea, at least in my mind, if you play the sounds of endangered species, hopefully it will encourage them to come back." youtube.com/watch?v=Ksh1XOPNi5s&feature=emb_logo I'm a fan of this "wake up call", instead of the alarm... Even confronting growing urgency, can we sing each other awake, instead of screaming? Can we tune in … Continue reading What does a wake up call sound like?

First, may I say that to be a poet doesn't require an English literature degree, an A in English, a fancy way with words or any external designation. There are poets everywhere, and poems everywhere, waiting to be discovered, plucked from a laden tree, picked up from a rocky shore, or to snag you like … Continue reading How to be a poet (to remind myself): a poem by Wendell Berry

Dr. Lorna Williams, Wánosts’a7, Member of the Order of Canada, with her daughter Megan Q’emayts’a7 Williams, at her virtual investiture ceremony, on Tuesday, December 15 2020. Photo: Daniel Nevin from First People's Cultural Council https://www.youtube.com/embed/vv3xZQsq7sk?start=750 We offer our warmest congratulations to Her Excellency, Dr. Lorna Williams, Wánosts’a7, who was invested in the Order of Canada … Continue reading Lil’watul Dr. Lorna Williams, Wánosts’a7, receives the Order of Canada at virtual ceremony on Tuesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aupFpmLMUf0&list=PLeH0_x6q9Iodn2ho68ntETSoznGavcDsb&index=7&fbclid=IwAR3TX4IY88UQaNXqkN-MA_zD-CJiW6t6GKkn34PQLwZZoyhbTqFFLk76r7U Proud to see the Lil'wat Business Group and Lil'wat Holdings be recognized by the BC Achievement Foundation for Indigenous Business, for their effort to create opportunity within the community. The businesses run through Lil'wat Holdings redirect their profits into the community and provide salaries for community members, not to mention services like the Lil'wat … Continue reading Celebrating Lil’wat Holdings for their nomination for the BC Achievement Indigenous Business Award

Here's something that has happened, in this season of long nights and strange days, out of this lovely Sharing Circle experiment in coming together, that has been so generously hosted and guided by Tanina Williams of Amawilc: Lil'wat knowledge keeper, Tanina Williams People who have been part of one or more of the circles have … Continue reading Our Closing Sharing Circle for 2020 is Monday December 21, 8pm, and you’re all welcome

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fy3OFryIbNQ "Don't take that salmon off the native table. That's what we live on," says Joe Lester, in this film, We'll Do Our Fishing (UBCIC, 1978), interviewed standing along (and in) the Birkenhead. "As long as the river runs and the lake is there, we'll do our fishing," said Daniel Wells. "You can't beat Nature, … Continue reading Protect wild salmon and shift from abundance-of-a-resource-thinking to rebuilding

Santa is getting the papal treatment, thanks to the wonderful crew at Pemberton Emergency Services... He'll be driven around the Pemberton neighbourhoods to spread holiday cheer on Saturday, 19 December, at 2:30pm. The map shows the route. Please stay close to your neighbourhood to avoid crowding and practice social distancing, so that this groovy initiative … Continue reading Pemberton Santa Tour, Saturday 19 at 2:30pm