For the Mycophiles
When I venture into the woods, at the autumn hour each year when tree leaves explode into great collections of colours— red, orange, yellow— now here, now there, everywhere one day and gone the next, I am looking not just for that moment of transition in the canopy, I go also to find the most decadently sculpted fungi.
Circling the sun
Know thyself, for “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” (Aristotle).
Forthcoming memoir!
With the encouragement and support of Caitlin Press, my first book, Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller was released in March, 2023 — a literary memoir set in the forests of Sumas Mountain in Abbotsford B.C.
Nature Writing?
Learning to appreciate the natural world as its own entity deserving, like any other living thing on the planet, respect, its own voice to be heard, to be left alone, and to be given a fair chance at survival. In the same way assistance and compassion are offered to human beings who have been downtrodden, traumatized, torn, and disrespected, I propose the Natural world be given the same respect. How do we get there?
Paths to ponderous minds…
Check out projects from members of The Harbour Group Writer’s Club!
The perfect cup
There is always a joy to be found in the simplest pleasures if only we’d learn to stop – to sit – to observe– to let the moment wash over you as if you’ve reached Nirvana. If I let it, that moment comes every day with the perfect cup of coffee.
Making a connection…
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Poise ~ and a Wee Bit of Wisdom
Releasing ourselves from the dream-like expectations we have over our lives, where we criticize what we’ve done, where we’ve gone, and how much we’ve accomplished, is the only way to step over the rabbit hole and keep walking forward on the path we’ve created.
Courage - Calm - Resilience -Strength of Character
Beverley McLachlin shares the story of her life in "Truth Be Told: The Story of My Life and My Fight for Equality", and provides eloquent and poignant pieces of wisdom that might help us continue on with a little more strength, in the New Year.
Covid on the Coast- Letters from the Pandemic
... in this time
Of dereliction and dismay, I yet
Despair not of our nature, but retain
A more than Roman confidence, a faith
That fails not, in all sorrow my support,
The blessing of my life…
William Wordsworth- The Prelude
Good Food Feels Good
In Italy, where great food, beautiful ingredients, and flowing wine are abundant, there is a certain kind of magic that occurs when the time is taken to savour.
Pandemic Sourdough
When Covid 19 broke out and self-isolation became the norm, many of us took up strange hobbies to occupy our minds and make use of the time we had in our homes.