IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Art of the body
How does one prepare for the day when a surgeon will cut off a piece of what makes one a woman?I've been thinking a lot about bodies lately. Christine intrigued me with her choice of "embody" as her word for the year. And then Leah invited us to focus on the body as...
Drawing Class (so far)
Week #2 - perspective...Week #3 - still life with charcoal...And I am a happy, happy girl!
Getting through the week
First it was the weariness from five days away (some of which included a fairly intense staff retreat). Then it was the scrambling energy it took to start filling a small role in response to the Haiti disaster (communicating, responding to donors &...
Sometimes
Sometimes parenting wrenches your heart right out of your chest, tosses it on the floor and stomps on it.Sometimes you have to sit in the bathroom holding your daughter and listening to her sob for half an hourall the while knowing you can't do a damn thing to FIX...
Sometimes you just have to find a tree and lean on it
It was day one of the staff retreat. The day that my team was meeting under my leadership. Staff and volunteers had come from across the country and I had to lead them, inspire them, and encourage them. The trouble was, I wasn't feeling very inspired myself. I...
Haiti on my mind
Today, after 5 days away from my computer, I came back to an in-box packed full of inquiries about Haiti. Many wanted to know if we will be doing any food programming there (the answer is yes - feel free to support), but most wanted to know if M & J are...
Learning to draw
Last night I started my drawing class. At the Winnipeg Art Gallery, no less - a place for SERIOUS artists. (My last class was through the local community centre, so this is me "kickin' it up a notch!") I'm so excited. My teacher is just the right mix of down-to-earth,...
Random Monday morning
1. My oldest daughter is insane. She LOVES to go to the gym, LOVES to run on the treadmill, and WILLINGLY got up at 5:45 this morning to drag me out of bed and drag me to the gym. She finally has the doctor's okay to start running again (since her knee surgery in...
Still burning
A few days ago, I let Maddie drag me out of the house to see the Olympic flame as it passed through our city. It was my first day back to work and I really didn't relish the thought of leaving my warm cocoon again in the evening, but I just didn't think it was right...
A picture is worth a thousand words
Today I am posting this picture simply because it made me smile yesterday when I came across it in one of our work publications.It makes me smile and it helps me to remember that I've lived a good life. I have been privileged to walk on foreign soil many...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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