https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmNF_-ohafE&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3rp-XOLFvM-xqPxdiKQqhQZdofeCdVkHcaL3iROW2luNOxtGkk17W9FUk There's a reason Dr Lorna Williams is such a sought-after speaker - she's an authority in indigenous language revitalization, but she's always such a wonderful teacher and storyteller. I'm so grateful this presentation, that she gave in 2017, was recorded, and that we can share it here. I marvel at the unrelenting patience she … Continue reading Dr Lorna Williams’ address on how universities can support indigenous language revitalization

Ty is a Grade 1 student at Signal Hill in his 3rd year of his journey with ALL leukaemia treatment at BC Children's Hospital. Help Ty and his sister Tia fill the BC Children's Oncology treasure chest! The toy drive is in support of the Child Life Team at Children's Hospital.  It is a program set … Continue reading 4th annual Super Ty’s Toy Drive is now on: Help stockpile spirit-boosters for kids in cancer treatment

No one is coming to rescue us. No one is coming to fix things. No one is coming to clean up our messes. Why shouldn't we be the stewards, the problem solvers, the citizen scientists? A consumerist society wants to disempower people, so the only thing we can ever think of to do, in order … Continue reading One Mile Lake Citizen Science Workshop – Sunday Dec 8, 9am – noon

For 25 months of Bo Kindree's three-year-long life, he and his family navigated Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Kat generously gave us a glimpse inside their world as one of our instagram takeovers, two years in a row, so we had the chance to spend a few moments of Christmas week 2017 and 2018, alongside them, first … Continue reading Live deeply, love fully: celebrate the life of Bo Kindree

This graphic, from a book by Cleo Wade, made me stop for a second and think about generosity. I'd heard a teacher say, when explaining how to approach a new challenge, a new learning, "be generous with yourself." Sometimes, my kid, who is only 6, throws his pencils down in frustration, that what he's trying … Continue reading Be generous with yourself

November 28: Stay Wild Pop-Up Artisan Market November 29: Festival of Trees Whistler Tree Lighting Reception November 30: Arts Whistler's Holiday Market at the Westin November 30: Lil'wat Nation Homestead group craft sale at Ullus gym, 10:30-3:00. December 1: Santa PAWS, 12 - 3 at Big Sky Golf Course December 4: Pemberton Chamber of Commerce … Continue reading Mark your Festive Event Calendar with these Christmas craft fairs, pop-ups and singalongs

Indigenous communities and settler communities standing with them are organizing a wave of #ClimateRoundDance actions for Nov 29th to accompany the global climate strike. This video explains what people can do, to be part of the #ClimateRoundDance. One viewer summarised her impressions of the talk: The message coming across barriers of language and tradition, of … Continue reading #ClimateRoundDance actions add a welcome layer to the global climate strikes, November 29

A recent piece in Inc magazine references the forthcoming December 2019 issue of The Atlantic, in which psychologists Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant) suggest an obsession with success is dominating the way people parent - and undermining their ultimate goal. When parents are surveyed, over 90 percent say that having a child grow up to … Continue reading If the most successful people are kind, how could you shift your parenting in one minute a day?

Every so often, I try to clean up my phone... I go through the photo gallery and delete all the stuff that takes up so much room that the ancient (by iPhone standards) artefact will stop making clunking sounds when it powers up... but for some reason, when I get to all the little screenshots … Continue reading The Secret – a poem by Denise Levertov