As someone who has been on the slow-the-freak-down bandwagon for the past decade, this quote resonates. What can I say? I'm a slow learner. And still moving too fast. Process is hard. Compromise is hard. Waiting for other people to keep up is hard. Also in the challenging basket: talking about feelings, managing conflict and … Continue reading If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far? Go together.
You know that set of wedding china taking up room in the back of your kitchen? or your mom's kitchen? or your grandma's? What I love about the Pemberton Museum's Tea and Tales programming is that all that lovely old china is being used. Cuppa tea and treat under the shade of the big old … Continue reading Mark your Tuesdays for The Museum’s Tea and Tales
There was a moment, fifteen years ago, when I knew I had chosen Pemberton and I wouldn’t unchoose it. I was walking along a quiet stretch of road, between town and the old high school, when a horseback rider came clip-clopping towards me. Before I could nod a greeting, the cowboy called out, “Is this … Continue reading Which Way to the Beach, You Lucky Bastards?
The announcement that Skrillex is donating some DJ equipment to local youth is a pretty exciting legacy from the Festival. But the emerging DJ talents in the Valley aren't the only groups to benefit. The Pemberton Music Festival Community Fund will provide grants of up to $2000 from ticket-sales to community organisations that promote positive, … Continue reading The Pemberton Music Festival will fund positive community-enhancing projects with new Community Fund
My throat hurts. I smoked cigarettes for about five minutes when I was at University, and since then, have had pretty pink clean lungs. The current air quality is apparently the equivalent of smoking a pack a day of cigarettes. It's not a great feeling. But here are some perspectives on that. The first, comes … Continue reading A fresh perspective on smoke and haze
Driving past the Pemberton Music Festival site is pretty exciting these days... some large and magical things are rising up out of the mist. And while the smoke is certainly concentrating the minds of a lot of folk on matters of safety, let's take a moment to just relish the idea of celebrating being alive, … Continue reading Pemberton’s Hillary Downing writes today in the Globe and Mail about going to the Pemberton Music Festival with her mom
Personally, I was thinking I'd like to get this, as a t-shirt. (One fan already mocked it up...) But I was one-upped, seriously, by a fan who got a Vanessa Stark inked onto his skin. An instagram feed of artwork, doodles, drawings and bike rides? Eye-candy. (And almost 2000 people agree.)
Yesterday was my first Canada Day parade. As a general rule, if a large crowd is gathering, I head off in the other direction. (The road less travelled, right?) But, not taking the two year old to see fire trucks just seemed wrong. So, we went. And I was glad to be wearing big sunglasses, … Continue reading That Canada Day parade *sniff*
The Wellness Almanac 