I ignored the first black glove but the second one required intervention-I scooped it up and went back for its mate, only to discover that they were not a pair. The almost fully composed posting for the community forum, reuniting some snowmobiler with a favourite, perhaps only pair of gloves, tumbled from the page I … Continue reading Lost and Found
Do you have a passion for parks and conservation? Do you live between Vancouver and Lilooet? Are you over 60 years old? If you answered yes! to these questions, then CPAWS-BC invites you to apply for our Take Back the Wild conservation campaign training program. Take Back the Wild: Raising the Voices of Sea to Sky Seniors is a … Continue reading CPAWS is looking for some radical planet-loving elders – apply by March 18 to attend two free summits on participant-led conservation
Pemberton's 18 year old sit-skier, Ethan Hess is racing the 15km in the Paralympics at 5pm tonight. If you feel like cheering him on in a social environment, where jumping up and yelling at the TV is completely okay, head down to the Pony, and join the rest of his fans. His races are: Saturday, … Continue reading Cheer on Paralympian Ethan Hess at the Pony
If we're going to talk about getting loud for mental health, as Bell Canada urges us to do every year on 31 January, we should talk about the 364 days in between. And the importance of listening as well as talking, airing and sharing. Thanks to Christine Cogger for permission to repost this fantastic blog … Continue reading The 364 days in between Bell’s Let’s Talk Day
Janet shared this post on Valentine's Day, but every day is worth finding love, so we're reproducing it here... a few weeks after the legitimate chocolate binge has faded. If you feel the need toe at chocolate while reading this post, we endorse that wellness strategy. Over to Janet. A little over 5 years ago I … Continue reading Find it everywhere
I subscribe to the Sketch Guy from the New York Times because these little thought nuggets give me pause. Also, because his tagline is "where the complex gets made simple" and I found that promise irresistible. Here is a recent offering from Carl Richards., author of The Behaviour Gap. Let's have a little chat about … Continue reading Carl Richards on how to change behaviour
There's a soundtrack to this, for sure. But yours might differ from mine. So I'll let you spin it up. Thanks Gary for reminding us of the magic of sunny days, winding roads, and mountain vistas.
Yesterday, I shared about honing my grief skills when I lost my mom. Sometimes I feel like people who are devoted to one religion have an easier time when dealing with death. They have such a concrete vision of where their loved ones go. This week my nine year old daughter pulled me in tight … Continue reading The Many Forms of Those You Love
Six years ago my mom died and I Googled how to grieve. In our Western world, nobody really talks about death, and certainly nobody teaches us how to grieve. How is it that I, then a 32 year old mother of two, raised by a loving, tuned-in and involved family, turned to Google when faced … Continue reading Grief and the Passing of Time
Somehow a line from the song, I’m On My Way by the Proclaimers wriggled into my thoughts as I contemplated my approach to this post. Insistently, it affirmed, “I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday.” Now, it’s not as if I’ve been going in the wrong direction and suddenly found my way … Continue reading Detour
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