Reading: Driven- The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers

North Vancouver City Library Adult book club May book Driven- The Read More ...

Reading: What Strange Paradise

North Vancouver City Library Adult book club April book Excerpts What Read More ...

Listening: Liberation Ecotherapy with Phoenix Smith (Upstream)

Podcast: Liberation Ecotherapy with Phoenix Smith (Upstream) Ecosystems can be Read More ...

Reading: No One Is Talking About This

North Vancouver City Library Adult book club January book Excerpts Background Read More ...

Poem: The Year

The Year What can be said in New Year rhymes,That’s Read More ...

Experiencing: Conifer Connect

Learning all about conifer trees at the VanDusen Botanical Garden Read More ...

Reading: Freedom Seeker by Yvonne Winkler

A dear friend and colleague of mine, Yvonne Winkler, wrote Read More ...

Poem: Fear

Fear It is said that before entering the sea a Read More ...

Poem: The Moment

The Moment The moment when, after many yearsof hard work Read More ...

Reading: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

Finished reading the novel The Book of Two Ways by Read More ...

Reading: Midnight’s Children

North Vancouver City Library Adult book club November book Excerpts Notes Read More ...

Listening: Connect with Your Ancestors (Life Kit)

Podcast: Life Kit – Connect with Your Ancestors (Ancestral altars Read More ...

Poem: Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency I wake up & it breaks Read More ...

What Is Silent?

Rocks, millions of years of quiet pulsing from the earth’s Read More ...

Quote: Knowledge – bell hooks

To bear the burden of memory one must willingly journey Read More ...

Reading: Dark Showers (Hima Batavia)

https://himabatavia.substack.com/p/76-dark-showers And some notes on zen cleaning and co-living by Read More ...

Listening: Borders (It Could Happen Here)

Andrew sits down with Gare and James to explain the Read More ...

Reading: Keeping the Heart Open (Hima Batavia)

#75 – keeping the heart open Even during the struggle Read More ...

Listening: Five Fingers Crush the Land (Throughline)

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/07/994895474/five-fingers-crush-the-land Over one million Uyghur people have been detained in Read More ...

Miscarriage

Life was in me And now it flows through My Read More ...

Poem: A’tukwewinu’k (storytellers)

A’tukwewinu’k (storytellers) i heard the singing through the firestones, trees, Read More ...

Poem: Future We In-U-Wee

Future We In-U-Wee Are we allowed to dream?Are we allowed Read More ...

Reading: Son of Elsewhere

Abdelmahmoud, E. (2022, May 17). Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Read More ...

Poem: Names

Names She was Eliza for a few weekswhen she was Read More ...

Poem: This Poem is Dangerous

This Poem is Dangerous This poem is dangerous: it should Read More ...

Reading: Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future

North Vancouver City Library Adult book club October book Excerpts Read More ...

Poem: Song for Autumn

Song for Autumn Don’t you imagine the leaves dream nowhow Read More ...

Poem: Our Souls Will Not Be Soothed

Our Souls Will Not Be Soothed our soulswill not be Read More ...

Listening: Bridging the Potential Podcast – Art is Everything

What happens when you bridge the experience, education, and expertise Read More ...

Listening: It Could Happen Here – Permaculture with Andrew

It Could Happen Here Podcast – Permaculture with Andrew September Read More ...

Summer 2022 Highlights

Summer 2022 Highlights – Top 20 highlights Working together with Read More ...

Reading: The Canning Kitchen

On our trips to Tofino, we’ve fallen in love with Read More ...

Listening: Code Switch – What does it mean to “inherit whiteness?”

In Baynard Woods’ new memoir, Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness, Read More ...

Watching: Canada’s Worst Driver

S and I have been watching this show called Canada’s Read More ...

Reading: Radiant Body of Time

Notes on the Rhizome and Re-Thinking Emergence What if we Read More ...

Reading: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

One of my summer reads for 2022 was the novel Read More ...

Watching: The Japanese man who gets paid to ‘do nothing’

The Japanese man who gets paid to ‘do nothing’ – Read More ...

Visual Journal – A Sketch A Day

Back in April, I had a beautiful visit to Bellingham Read More ...

Experiencing: Perspective

Bookmarking and posting some incredible resources that have shifted perspective Read More ...

Poem: The Quiet Machine

The Quiet Machine I’m learning so many different ways to Read More ...

Poem: The Summer Day

Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-133/the-summer-day/ Read More ...

July 1, 2022 Suffering In the Moment

Exhaustion. Tension.  Congestion. Fogginess. Inflammation. Itch. Heat. Heaviness.  This the Read More ...

A Writing Practice

“Stefi! I have a writing practice now!,” I yelled up Read More ...

in·ter·sti·tial

in·ter·sti·tial /ˌin(t)ərˈstiSHəl/ adjective adjective: interstitial of, forming, or occupying interstices.”the interstitial Read More ...

Listening: 99% Invisible – The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature

From 99% Invisible Podcast – Episode 496 “The Ojibwe name Read More ...

Experiencing: Nature Based Leadership

June 2, 2022 notes from a webinar by Cheryl Charles Read More ...

Watching: Connecting to the Wilderness Within with Angeles Arrien

Dr. Angeles Arrien was a cultural anthropologist, author, and educator Read More ...

Reading: Hima Batavia #68 – on creative space

H 5/13/2022 I can’t remember how I stumbled across her, Read More ...

Now I Dream of Motherhood As Water

Been sitting with thoughts of motherhood, the divine feminine, home, Read More ...

Processing the Natural World Through Art

Animal Watercolors Nature Watercolors Plant Drawings Fungi Drawings Aquatic Plant Read More ...

I am from…

Poem I wrote during the course Hermeneutics of Humour in Read More ...

2022 Visions

Words ​Intra-ActionHereLineageDivine FeminineCollective ImaginationEcology I dream… ​I dream of a Read More ...

Watching: Can Small-Scale Farming Feed the World?

Nerding out on videos such as this one, which provoke Read More ...