This Friday, the Pemberton Farmers' Market hosts its 2nd annual Stone Soup Celebration at the downtown Community Barn. Five chefs will partner with one of five different local farms to create delicious soups featuring local produce and product. You get to be the 'judge'! For $10, taste all five soups, place your vote and enjoy … Continue reading Stone Soup fundraiser for the Farmers Market, Friday 28 September
This photo from Orange Shirt Day at Signal Hill from 2016 choked me up when I first saw it - because is there anything more adorable than a pack of kindy kids, first graders and their bigger buddies? Because it makes me feel hopeful, that the future is in their hands, that they are learning … Continue reading Why I’ll lay out an orange shirt for my 5 year old to wear on Friday
You expected me to cry, I bet. Granted, I nearly lost it when I glanced over and saw my husband tearing up. But I didn’t. I held it together. It was time. Everything was signaling it – from the five year old’s dead-forward focus climbing up the bus steps and heading off to kindergarten, to … Continue reading Letting go… of a kindergartener
A friend shared this the other day, and it resonated, (maybe I'm just on a morning coffee roll) so I'm passing it along. You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee? "Well … Continue reading Reframing a spilled cup of coffee
Cheer on the participants of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Líl̓wat Stl’atl ́imc Business Start Up Program (we've been profiling them here each week) at the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre Wednesday October 3rd, from 6:00-8:30pm. These dedicated community members and entrepreneurs have been working hard over the last eight months to develop their business ideas. Sharing ideas takes … Continue reading Beyond the brainstorm: this is what Ideas look like when they come to life, October 3, Business Start Up program Pitch Event
Make a little shelf while learning some basic woodworking skills. Supplies included in workshop cost.
Thanks to Maxine Joseph-Bruce for sharing the salmon tally, as of Tuesday 18 September: Sneknukwa7, 12,129 sockeye in the Birkenhead River as of this afternoon tally. River level is pretty low and temporature is at around 12c. Much appreciation to the Lil'wat Fisheries Technicians for all their efforts to this point, we are at around … Continue reading Tallying the salmon coming home
Anyone else? Thank you to Diane Zaste for bringing this to my attention.
Settling in to sleep, I'm invited into the night by a riot of crickets. A Great Horned owl choruses, "Hoo-hoo-hoooo-hoo, Hoo-hoo-hoooo-hoo - beckoning me in further. And, in the background, the eternal silence of the night reminds me that I am. I'm serenaded into belonging as nature's lullaby sings me to sleep. The wind caresses … Continue reading Midnight Serenades
The Pemberton & District Public Library invites you to a free screening of Indian Horse, the feature-film adaptation of the popular novel by the late Richard Wagamese. The show will begin at 7:30 pm, with a discussion after the movie. Special guest speakers TBA.
The Wellness Almanac 