When I saw the little yellow dress in the window, I smiled. The burst of colour on a gloomy day and the absolute frivolity of the creation were a visual treat. I thought about entering just to fondle the material but instead passed by for more practical purposes: My dad had resorted to using the … Continue reading Retail Therapy
I’m going to drop a bomb on you all. So, just prepare yourselves.
Natalie McNamara shares her reflection on a week as the Wellness Almanac's instagrammer, below. https://www.instagram.com/p/BP6SBOljntv/?taken-by=thewellnessalmanac https://www.instagram.com/p/BP6S1OsD6z2/?taken-by=thewellnessalmanac https://www.instagram.com/p/BP6exztDGtP/?taken-by=thewellnessalmanac Focusing our intention in on our own lives is pretty cool. Posting photos of our weekly routines on a social media site like Instagram is an interesting experiment. I was mindful of many things that I am … Continue reading Natalie McNamara’s week on instagram
Douglas First Nation are a small band of around 60 members living on a reserve located at the northern tip of Harrison Lake. In late January, the community learned that they had been awarded a grant worth up to $405,000 from the Canada – BC Jobs grant program to provide much needed skills, training and … Continue reading NEWS: Xa’xtsa/Douglas First Nation secyre $450,000 grant for jobs and entrepreneurship training
Find out what's happening, who's making it happen, and how to be one of those happening makers yourself, at the 2017 Pemberton Arts Council's AGM on Wednesday night, from 7pm - 9pm. All are welcome to join them for refreshments, community sharing of ideas, PAC plans for 2017, annual reports, the election of new board … Continue reading Pemberton Arts Council’s AGM is Wednesday, Feb 15, 7pm at the Pemberton Community Centre
Some pictures are poems. So I'll just let this speak for itself. Thanks to Gary Martin for sharing.
Shayla Wallace shares this image and thought-prompt with us today: "Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is forseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day." -Shams Tabrizi Here I am looking at the snow, and seeing the snowflake.
Surely most people can compile a humbling list of things they do not know. My inventory is mind numbing and often capable of deflating my motivation. For example, I might discover some tiny fact about a subject and offer it up as conversation fodder only to find that ten other people already knew ten times … Continue reading Things I Do Not Know
Paul Charron opened our 2017 WellnessAlmanac instagram project with a takeover that took us behind the scenes of the SASET Culinary Arts program which he helped get off the ground, and has been teaching, while on leave from his job as a support worker at Signal Hill. His personal story is an inspiring one, and … Continue reading Paul Charron’s Instagram takeover kicked off our year
I have neutralized my despair since the inauguration of Donald Trump (or at least, attempted to), with this single thought: we are at the beginning of creating a better world. The dream of it has been brewing for some time — inequity, greed, climate disaster, ecological collapse — the balance is tilted so far out, … Continue reading Despair, Trump and what having a baby taught me about what is still to come
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