Tatamagouche Centre sits on a sacred Mi’kmaq gathering site and burial grounds in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), Turtle Island. Unceded unsurrendered Mi’kmaq homeland. It has been a place of gathering and ceremony for thousands of years and continues to be a place where many L’nu connect, gather on the land around ceremony and food. This land…
Based on online course I taught to support cooperative workers through Southern New Hampshire University. Paper presented 2018 based on several years of work.
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Monday, July 1, 2019, 05:36 PM – Poetry and Writing The other night at the Celebration of Life of my friend Marcel, I fainted, hit my head and knocked myself out. He would have loved that I left his party on a stretcher. Marcel the marine engineer who spent a good part of his career…
Friday, May 31, 2019, 09:16 PM – Outdoor adventure I’m about to hike the Sunshine Coast trail. It’s a long way to go to be carrying heavy food so have been investigating and calling up my favourite camping recipes. A friend Alexi is also starting a kayak company in Cape Breton (stay tuned!) and we…
Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 04:19 PM – Poetry and Writing Marcel, you’re a pirate, a dreamera bugger, a spinner of yarn,you are one of my fondest memories.Guitar, crackling fire, a few friends,the ocean A-framed. If only the world could drift off likewe did that night,bodies opening to new trust. In your fourth round,still standing you…
up bearing witnessthis blood moon tango with lightenso in the stars tears fall with the chantshonour but don’t privilegestrong winds are fleeting little red mapletouch of drag with winter huesmore wink than prayer
Thursday, January 10, 2019, 01:06 PM – Inspiring It’s hard to explain why I meditate or sit. I think it’s just playing with awareness and relaxing into myself and the present moment. Early trauma apparently divorces us from both. It’s really an exercise in being friends with your mind. Loosening it. Letting feeling and sensation…
Monday, December 3, 2018, 03:39 PM – Inspiring One of the most inspiring parts of the Transformative Learning conference at Columbia U this year was a visit that we arranged to the Thurgood Marshall Lower School in Harlem. Wow. These students practice gratitude, compassion, checking in to their feelings, reflection, meditation daily. They even have…