Monthly Archives: May 2021

In school, I learned about this concept of shifting baselines. The slight or large change in a system, an environment, a person. How we quickly adjust like it was always this way, to correct and acknowledge in order to move … Continue reading →

I am a metaphor for a doorway. This body. Standing under the transom, looking forward, turning back The between, a what’s to come and a what has been This inflection point, on a fulcrum The moment the see-saw parallels the … Continue reading →

In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times. -Bertolt Brecht, from the poem “Motto” As we stood holding our dishes in the kitchen, Mike said, “you’ve been singing a lot … Continue reading →

I read a perspective piece by a colleague today, Jess Housty from the Heiltsuk First Nation. Talking about salmonberries and people and salmon, the interconnectedness, the mutuality and reciprocity being as evident as the taste of the cool salt spray … Continue reading →

You know that feeling, when you wake in the middle of the night, and the full moon has snuck through the sliver of open space between the curtain and the Victorian window molding? You are awake because the light, a … Continue reading →

It was like a bolt of lightning hit me when I stepped into the shower today. I froze. I don’t know how long it lasted, but I was in my own dream space, realizing that if my Aunt Judy dies, … Continue reading →

Is it different this year? Or am I different? The birds. They are so…present. Noisy. Alive. Full of movement. And maybe it’s all the more noticeable because for the first time in so long, I’m the still one. Perched in … Continue reading →