If you want to nominate a book, email thewellnessalmanac@gmail.com with: the name of the book, your name, and a few words about why it moved you, why you’d recommend it. (ie what did you tell your friend/boss/colleague/partner/kid when you pushed this book into their arms and said, you’ve got to read this.) a book selfie. (No … Continue reading WellnessReads2015 (Part II): How to Nominate a Book
You can tell a lot about someone from the books they've read. And you can tell a lot about a community based on what's trending on the library shelves. That's why I was so fascinated to spy the Pemberton & District Public Library's round-up of the most popular fiction and non-fiction books for 2014. Interesting pulse? … Continue reading Wellness Reads: the kick-off
There is a microsecond long window when a baby falls asleep that everything is right in the world. My personal victory today? Resisting taking a photo of that moment. The kid is 23 months old, so I already have approximately 700 photos of him sleeping, none of which have successfully managed to evoke the heart-swell … Continue reading Column: Why I Don’t Need Another Photo of my Sleeping Baby
Books are only part of the story. A quick dance through the numbers would suggest that on average, every Pemberton District/Area C/Lil'wat resident, comes to the library once a month, that there's some kind of free program on offer every day the library was open, and that every item in the collection circulates three times … Continue reading A Year in the Life of a Library
Okay, I'm still having to stop and think when I need to write the date... 2015. 2015. So the fact that January is already in the rear-vision mirror means I really better get a handle on that. In case it flew by for you, too, here's what you might have missed on the Wellness Almanac … Continue reading Wellness Round-up – January in Review
Stress-proof your life by letting go of the things you can't control.
Flood it for hockey or curling. Hang a movie screen for a bicycle drive-in theatre. Host weddings. Host a circus school. Host a barn dance. How about long table lunches or tango lessons, soup kitchen, outdoor church sessions, an art market, a summer long canoe carving project? The point of a brainstorm is to throw … Continue reading Brainstorm for the Barn, February 4 (and a Q+A with Dawn Johnson)
Winter has not been kind to Winterfest, (it just doesn't seem fair after all the effort put in to say "winterfest plans on thin ice") but the organising committee have done snow dances, rallied and reformatted the program for this weekend. A Pineapple Express has put the kaibosh on Winterfest's more frosty fun, but (in … Continue reading Winterfest Pemberton 2015 – updated event schedule for Sunday Jan 25, One Mile Lake
On Thursday January 22nd, Garth Riess will be joining us to talk about his travels on his bicycle and read from some of his writing. On Saturday January 24th, we have a Family Literacy program for families with children aged 5+. This program is free to attend and is facilitated by local author Sara Leach.
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