Keita, the Pemberton Arts Council’s Programming Coordinator who is leading up a beautiful local workshop series, and I, were at the same all-day business planning session, so we tucked ourselves to the side for a moment, to jam on the specifics of my offering to host a workshop. The workshops are this gorgeous grassroots celebration…
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Seeking outlets for love and rage
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:…
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…
Get Engaged
I had a flash of cold clarity: is this the phone call that changes the rest of my life?
When you have to write a love song to your community and you don’t recognize it anymore
I got asked to write a little lovesong to Pemberton – to make the thousand word case why it’s the best community to live in, in the Sea to Sky – and I still don’t really understand why I found it so hard. (I shared the final piece earlier this week.) Ten years ago, even…
Royal Rumble: Pemberton
In the spring issue of Mountain Life, Coast Mountains, the communities of the corridor flex on their unique attributes. I got to speak for Pemberton. via https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2024/03/royal-rumble-pemberton/ Wayne Andrew, Líl̓wat horseman and a legendary rodeo rider in his prime, told me recently how Pemberton got its name. A story his grandfather told him. Passed on…
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…
Lift and drag: on being voted Pemberton’s Favourite Writer
The Best of Pemberton issue that Pique newsmagazine puts out, landed a month ago. Everything is moving slowly in me these days, so it took a while to formulate a response to being anointed Pemberton’s Favourite Writer. As a friend recently shared, compliments tend to make one’s mind explode. Well, specifically the phrase that The…
How do we grow our tolerance for discomfort? Keep asking how.
I read recently that if you want to get to the heart of something, ask the question “why?” five times. (So, parenthood has been preparing me for something!) “I worked in group dialogue for years: often in dialogue to do with conflict and peace,” wrote Pádraig Ó Tuama, poet, theologian and host of the Poetry Unbound…
Soil matters: Climate activists in our midst
“EVERY FARM HAS ITS OWN PERSONALITY,” says Amy Norgaard, a soil science student at the University of British Columbia, and former farmhand and market manager with Ice Cap Organics. Her two-year-long Master’s thesis, which she will defend in late spring, required her to travel between 18 different organic farms across southwest B.C., the Pemberton Valley,…
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