I interviewed mountain biker Casey Brown fourteen years ago, and have never forgotten the thing she shared, that her dad taught her, that powered her racing. When you ride, he advised, “Put all your love and hate into it.” The thing that struck me in this Wise-Dad-Counsel was the baseline acknowledgement to his daughter, that:…
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Culture is a real estate problem
How secret poetry appreciators and others need places to act out their wild imaginings Here’s a sneak peek at tomorrow’s Pique back page. Exclusive to subscribers! (You can read it there at https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/opinion-culture-is-a-real-estate-problem-11557490) Kerry Dorey, Jay Molloy and I had this idea. Officially, we’re the Society of Secret Poetry Appreciators, but you should know that…
Ten Ways to Fall in Love with the Future
Future be scary, amirite? It’s hard not to feel trepidation for what lies ahead, which is why I hoovered up Rob Hopkins’ How to Fall in Love with the Future, because who doesn’t want to have a love story awaiting them, just around the bend. Here’s what I learned. 1. You must travel to the…
The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming ran in the debut issue of Edible Sea to Sky magazine. Photos by Brenda Bakker. At Laughing Crow Organics, the empty spring field is Kerry McCann’s blank canvas Every year, the impossible goal to provision 600 households starts with the same blank canvas: bare earth, covered in snow, and a new…
Spotlighting Alex van Zyl and the culture-shaping superpowers of landscape architects and design of place
I’ve worked before with the wonderful Tom Barratt of Tom Barratt Landscape Architecture – he’s a long-time Pique reader and he often has a sense of something that might be a story of interest to me. (This piece on his work in the Chilcotins, which required the long-time road biker to take some mountain bike…
Hope in a Time of Precarity – want to come to Hollyhock this September?
Last year, I had delicious plans to go on a summer camp with some of my favourite humans to hear Wade Davis and David Abrams at Hollyhock. It felt like something, AT LAST, to look forward to, after the pandemic’s hard yards. And then, the day before I was supposed to jump on the ferry…
What if we are the remedy we need?
Last summer, I joined a group of random strangers, from all around the world, to meet up via zoom, and support each other as accountability buddies, going through a free online foundations training in Active Hope. I’d heard about it when Manda Scott interviewed the co-creators of the training on her podcast. I’d had the…
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