10,000 stitches

10,000 stitches

Leonard Cohen language runs through my mind, the deep resonance of well-chosen words. I sit thrumming mittens to Cohen’s ageless musical beats; “I had the invitation that a sinner can’t refuse, it’s almost like the blues”. I carefully pull the chosen wool from the...
A First Time Moment

A First Time Moment

Yesterday I had a perfect swimming moment. The air, the water and me moved in perfect harmony.  I let the weightless feeling seep into my soul allowing a kinder, gentler view of the world arise. As I lay in the water, looking to the smoky blue of our Okanagan sky,...
Worms (and cheese)

Worms (and cheese)

Nobody Loves me, everybody hates me, I’m going into the garden to eat worms.Long fuzzy ones, short slimy ones, fat polka dot ones…Nobody Loves me… Yesterday at the end of the day after a full day of exploring miserable, I succumbed to a bath of epsom salts and...
Grow Where You Are Planted

Grow Where You Are Planted

The the first HarrowSmith Cookbook, published in 1981, has a photo of four beautiful and unusual varieties of squash on the cover. These are squashes that I never saw in my childhood, but this year I grew them in my garden! The HarrowSmith cookbooks were foundational...
How I Spent My Summer Holidays

How I Spent My Summer Holidays

Back in my school days, this was the first assigned essay of the year. The Summers of my childhood were filled with play, work, family visiting and travel. We lived in the Sayward Valley, on the NE side of Vancouver Island. Our home was surrounded by 100 acres of...
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