Besides WTH I am not sure how exactly to sum up 2020. This year has been intense, and I don’t think it is done with us yet. I’ve been looking for the optimism I usually ride into a new year on, but it seems a little elusive right now. The term “ankle busters” is aContinue reading “Dude”
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Hold Fast
Prove all things, hold fast that which is good. 1Thessalonians 5:21 A few years ago I became aware of the concept of choosing a word at the beginning of a year, something that would guide and represent your intentions as you began living 365 new days. I take this task very seriously and give itContinue reading “Hold Fast”
The Next Booth
There is something restorative about spending time with the people who knew you way back when. It feels bolstering in a deeply foundational way and is a little like when you are driving around lost and all of a sudden you’re on a familiar road. You have that sense of, oh, I know where IContinue reading “The Next Booth”
Prisms of Life
Thanksgiving weekend 2020. I am grateful for the ways that this unusual year has beamed light into my life. Grateful for the ways it has illuminated the path out of dark places and for the ways it has challenged and compelled me to grow. I’m grateful for the rest it has provided, for the deepContinue reading “Prisms of Life”
Justice and High Flung Hopes
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died yesterday. This feels devastating to me. She was dignified, feisty and graciously ferocious in her lifelong pursuit of equality for all. She was a tiny human who left a giant legacy. We have absorbed so much loss this year. Everything is different and changing and it feels like every stepContinue reading “Justice and High Flung Hopes”
Happy/Enough
Are we missing it? In this rainy province, where we spend so much time eagerly anticipating the sun burning off clouds and rain to show how beautiful it is here, are we seeing it? With all this fear and dread and conversation of what the school year will bring, with the risk to FOOTBALL SEASON,Continue reading “Happy/Enough”
Drifting
2020 has been extraordinarily extra. Weather weirdness, murder hornets, racial unrest, a virus that just keeps on keeping on, political nonsense, plenty of solitude or too much forced togetherness. It’s been a huge learning curve while we navigate a very un normal, normal. We’ve had rough and calm seas, unpredictable winds, and every day determinesContinue reading “Drifting”
High
One of my dearest goals in life was to be 5’4”. I don’t know how or why I picked that number, only that as a 4’11” girl I knew not to aim too high. 5’4” seemed reachable and normal. Only it turned out that by grade seven I was fully grown….as tall as I wouldContinue reading “High”
Reckoning
It feels like the world is on fire. Words feel risky and dangerous right now but that is where I go to sort information, ease anxiety and honour emotions. I am afraid of saying the wrong thing no matter how well intentioned. The rage and grief are almost too much to speak to. This isContinue reading “Reckoning”
There’s Going to be a Parade!
It’s almost Mother’s Day and about this time of year I start feeling a little sorry for men. All that simmering female expectation and unspoken hope in the air. A sense of the underlying resentment for past missteps. Hearing snippets of conversation between women…Because they should know. They have eyes and ears for goodness sake.Continue reading “There’s Going to be a Parade!”
Something to Shay 