Last long weekend, as we approached Easter, the message to people beyond our region was : STAY AWAY. Officially, that language has softened. Taking the lead from Dr Bonnie Henry's respectful tone, this weekend, people are being asked to be responsible, and considerate, and "stay local, stay apart, stay safe." In Thursday's briefing, Dr Bonnie … Continue reading Stay apart, stay local, stay safe and stay 100% all in

  Felix has started a youtube channel, "foraging Felix", to share what she knows about this place we live. Follow along, and learn how to harvest nettle, or make a wild snack from spring time thimbleberry shoots. Coming soon, dandelion lemonade and natural gummy bears. Thanks Felix!    

Someone posted to their Facebook page that today was March 79th. I cry-laughed. How true. Since March 13, when my kid finished school, I picked him up, and treated him to an ice-cream, we have gone into deeper and deeper isolation and the days of the week have become completely abstract. It's the longest March … Continue reading What day is this? What phase is this? What can I do? Wait. Stay close to home. Sing along with the Cookie Monster

On Friday afternoon, I sat down "with" Mayor Mike Richman to find out how the province's restart plan is landing in Pemberton and what it's going to look like. I learned: I always knew I couldn't really express myself if my hands were tied up and my eyebrows were shaved off, but seriously, I really … Continue reading How COVID19 is playing out in Pemberton: a chat with the Mayor

COVID-19: Message from SLRD Board Chair, May 8, 2020 via the SLRD It’s been a big week, with announcements coming from the province about the next phase of living with COVID-19 triggering perhaps more concern than relief for many. Not to mention, it’s been both Emergency Preparedness Week and Mental Health Week – a somewhat … Continue reading Chair Tony Rainbow suggests now is the time to grow a victory garden

Mother is not just a noun, a person/thing/place, an identity (and a vexed one at that.) It's also a verb. An action word. A gesture. The act of birthing, creating, tending. (And you don't need to be a woman, to identify as a woman, to have given birth, to practice mothering.) Interestingly, in the UK, Mother's … Continue reading Mother is a verb

When there are only a handful of fluent language speakers left alive in your community, and your language is your access to your culture, your identity, your values, (everything that was forcibly and violently and unfairly stripped from you), and those language speakers are all over 70, and the ones most likely to die from … Continue reading Seton Lake beaches and boat launch closed to the general public as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID19

Tune in to Facebook this afternoon at 4pm, and we'll check in with Village of Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman, on what the province's announcements this week mean here on the ground. It's an experiment! and a foray into new technological grounds, with two camera-resistant people... so there might be some gremlins, but after a quick … Continue reading In this together: the Wellness Almanac live-chats with Mayor Mike Richman, on Facebook at 4pm

Janet Ouchterlony shared this on her Facebook feed recently and gave permission for us to repost here. Over the years I have attempted to convey what it is like living with and healing from a long-term concussion. While I would never wish the experience upon anyone, I am finding that the concussion journey was in … Continue reading How recovering from concussion helped Janet Ouchterlony navigate a pandemic

The provincial government is calling this the Summer of Renewal. At her daily briefing on Monday, provincial health officer Dr Bonnie Henry said that our goal in the next months is "to learn to live with this virus in a safe way that protects people. This year in BC, with so much unknown, is going … Continue reading Imagine how we might look back on this moment… as a blip, a pain in the ass, the start of a crisis, or the Great Realisation