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Foraging Summer Sweetness

Do you recognize or have relationships with any plants that grow around us? I’m currently energized by hosting a Community Guild with Earthand Gleaners where we are investigating micro-local seasonal wild foods: ways to recognize, harvest, enjoy, and preserve these gifts for ourselves and others. We share the foragers ethical code, which means we take…

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Bird Language

I’ve started hearing baby birds in their nests… peeping quietly and not so quietly when their parents return with food. Join me as I visit 2 local parks and share what’s going on there this spring with the birds. I am honoured to be a guest with Earthand Gleaners, some of my very favorite makers!…

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Cedar Bones in quarantine

I’ve created a new series that I am excited to share with you. I have been exploring local forests these last two months…. We leave our house directly and proceed to forests by foot or bike. I have been surprised to find many many giant stumps, mostly along the north sides of steep forested slopes….

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This rainy season focus group explores how we want to be with ourselves and with each other in this time of abrupt climate change.

New Collaboration!

Very excited for this new collaboration I am part of: MOUNTAIN PRESENCE

Wild Wee Ones: Nature Program for Toddlers and Adults

This exciting new program brings the values of Nature and Forest school to younger kids and families, right in east Vancouver.  In this small, consistent group we will explore outside together through a combination of child-led play and facilitated activities. Join us as we develop our sense of place and belonging through sense-appreciation, connection, and…

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Crow Roost Twilight Bike Ride

On Saturday, Feb 13, 2016 meet at 4:30 at Lakewood and Central Valley Greenway, OR 4:45pm at Renfrew Skytrain Station, for the annual Crow Roost Twilight Bike Ride!  We will follow the crows on the Central Valley Greenway (5km round trip).  Dress for the weather, bring snacks to share and bike lights.  This is a…

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sun turning inspiration

my heart is full of gratitude! The Sun comes to us, giving rise to all life.  We are a result of the Suns energy.  We are mostly fooled, thinking we are separate from the sun but really how can we be? If you are like me      -that is living in the North-      now we are…

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vision! the Leap Manifesto

this is an inspiring poster for an inspiring project! I did not design it, but I’m glad to share it.    

Creative Action!

In less than a week Team Birds Not Bitumen has become one of the TOP   TEN   fundraising   teams!    of the Baille Birdathon.  Thank you heart-lifting friends.  And outward like ripples, several people have forwarded the resource section from my last BLOG post.  A friend sent this new song. …Read on for BIG DAY REPORT…

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What can we do?

This is my story of a small gift which I offer into the world. It holds love, hope and our fierce belief in a better way. The fossil-fuel-industrial-complex is a hungry and relentless bully, and it currently wants more and more and more of the river valley I live in. So the Fraser Valley has…

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Awesome Collaboration!

click on picture for more info about upcoming collaborative show at Brief Encounters Sept 19 – 21, Performance Works Theater in Vancouver. part of Pick of the Fringe!