It's easy to talk about "wellness" in high level, superficial terms - eat your veggies, drink water, move your body, practice self-care, have community. And there are some obvious "rules." But when you start to dig in to the complexities of real life, things get a little trickier to navigate. That's one of the things … Continue reading This week’s instagrammer, Dawn Hunter, asks the question: is involving your kids in competitive sports worth it?
Today is Bell Canada Let's Talk Day - an initiative to encourage people to Get Loud about mental health, in order that they not suffer in silence. https://www.instagram.com/p/BebPDEMAthn/?taken-by=cmha_bc In the first week of January, Sammy Losee took the helm of our instagram account, and when she signed off, she shared these words. Being there for … Continue reading Mental Health – requires people willing to talk about it, and people willing to listen
After many years stewarding Stewardship Pemberton, Dawn Johnson is passing the torch. An amazing opportunity is now open for someone who wants to have an impact on their community, be immersed in meaningful employment, and work in the beautiful Pemberton valley with a team of dedicated and passionate people. The part-time Executive Director (ED) is … Continue reading Stewardship Pemberton is hiring
It's strange, to live in such a globalized, sanitized, commodified, convenient-ized world, that a person could conceivably not know what food is actually in season, in any given month. Here's a post I found, for January: I do not have the same amount of energy this time of year that I'd have at high noon … Continue reading It’s January. What’s in season? What does it mean to eat in season, in the winter? Or simply to be in season?
On Tuesday, January 23, a powerful earthquake struck the coast of Alaska, triggering a tsunami warning down the coastline. Recent Pemberton resident, and our former guest emergency preparedness columnist, Rachael Low, was there. And because changing postal codes doesn't ever take the Pemberton out of you, Rachael offered to share some of her front-line, staring-down-a-tsunami … Continue reading In the Face of Disaster
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on--and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the … Continue reading Richard Wagamese on seeking stillness
A group of us got to talking ponies the other day. It was unanimous that small horses can be a bit (or a lot) headstrong. My own childhood pony, a Scottish Highland, was an exception, I now believe. From the time I got her when I was about six, till I turned twelve or so, … Continue reading Midnight, the Pony
The 2nd annual Pemberton Winterfest Adventure Hunt will have teams racing around Pemberton in search of answers on February 3. All you need is a smart phone...registration is free! Cash prize for the winning team!!
Coffee shop conversations with my friend Glen led to me asking to share this... the liner notes he wrote, as the director for the Whistler Singers, when they produced and recorded their own CD. I'd been telling him of a writer friend who had just crafted the most exquisite short story and I wanted to … Continue reading In praise of amateurs
On Thursday, the Village of Pemberton advised: The Mount Currie Landslide Risk Assessment (“Assessment”) is now complete. The Assessment, conducted by BGC Engineering Inc. (“BGC”), was conducted to determine landslide and associated flood risk from the north face of Mount Currie, including risk to life, buildings, critical facilities, business activities, power and communication lines. The … Continue reading Mount Currie Landslide Risk Assessement: Community Info Meetings. Jan 25 and 25
The Wellness Almanac 