There’s a billboard on the right just past the Lightfoot gas station in Lillooet and I enjoy chuckling at their latest message. Recently, the joke cracked me up good: Earlier this summer, we drove around the streets of Chase in search of a used travel trailer. Eventually, we needed coffee and on the way to … Continue reading Crack Me Up: Connie Sobchak finds several signs that her sense of humour is in tact
It is the astronomical beginning of the fall. My four year old greeted it with enthusiasm. "It's fall! Now we can jump in piles of leaves." He advised that he is happy because it means winter is coming and that's good because he was starting to get sick of summer. He's happy when winter comes … Continue reading So the season shifts. Happy Fall Equinox.
Here is something I heard recently, Junot Diaz in conversation with Krista Tippet, on On Being. There’s nothing about our impoverished political systems, our imagined communities, that is going to be able to hold us together in the face of the coming storm of climate change. We need a lot more than we have. And … Continue reading This is our 2000th post. Thank you for being here.
I've been reading this book, Stone Soup, with my 4 year old, and feeling what a profound story it is, how much the world needs those travellers to trick us into being kinder, into sharing what we have, into realizing that if we combine all our own little bits of goodness, we come up with … Continue reading Stone Soup Celebration at the Farmers’ Market, September 29, for $10
Epiphanies come when I’m feeding out slack. Don’t tell my climbing partner. Because when he’s leading his way up a strenuous pitch of rock, he likes to know that I am watching with rapt attention, feeding out the rope in perfect increments, absolutely focused on his every micro-move, so that, should he fall, I will … Continue reading Permission to suck is like a Hall Pass to happiness. Here’s one, if you need it.
Once again the Pemberton Lions and the Pemberton Rotary have combined to throw the best dance of the year featuring the Chris Buck Band and Northern Ignition. Tickets are $25. They are available in advance at AC Gas, Pemberton Valley Supermarket or at the Scotiabank in Pemberton.
After a summer of relative inactivity, three hill repeats out of the suggested ten on the One Mile Lake circuit had my legs burning. On the fourth, I thought, maybe this is actually the fifth but immediately pounced on that lie and insisted-every time you try to trick yourself into doing less than what you … Continue reading Never be Ashamed of a Walk in the Woods
Back to school and, six months after the Boomerang Bags initiative launched, it's time to get back into the bag-making, bag-borrowing, bag-boomeranging rhythm of things. (Yes! It's time to gather up those bags you borrowed, that have been lurking in the bottom drawer, the car trunk, the odd corners, and BOOMERANG them!) Boomerang Bags spearheader, … Continue reading Boomerang Bags Sewing Circle invites you to take part, Wednesday September 27 from 6 to 9 PM upstairs at the Community Center
Sunday, September 24. Join us for a guided tour in the Upper Lillooet River valley. We will visit Mount Meager landslide, the largest ever recorded in Canada! We may even see the volcanic fumaroles smoking and talk about this incredible history. We will check out one of the largest fires ever recorded in the Coast … Continue reading BC Rivers Day 2017 roadtrip heads upstream, Sunday September 24. Join the tour.
Today on the Wellness Almanac, Anna Helmer’s Creative Non-Fiction Column (so termed in order to avoid being sued), swerves wildly into federal food policy. If the government can't shout this from the rooftops of the world, then it's up to you, to whisper it, firmly, clearly, and loudly, to all your neighbours. Something is broken. … Continue reading A wild swerve into federal food policy
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