Things are not supposed to bring us happiness, however, don’t you think ‘intentionally acquired things’ can bring us more enjoyment? The habits and activities of every day make up our lives. Big events…
-
-
Travelling with children to and from remote places, nothing is easy and the road is filled with challenging stumbling blocks. Welcome to the yearly adventure… It’s a solid two days of traveling for…
-
Easter has come and gone. Often in many places around the world this means shared meals, and hopefully some chocolate whether it’s bunny-shaped, or not. And for many more people, it means attending church…
-
How to start and turn meditation into a practice. Acknowledge the importance of taking time for your own well-being and reveal truths through stillness. I meditated this morning. For the first time in what…
-
We’ve all heard it so many times – communication is the key and marriage is hard work. But communication about what exactly? And we don’t generally see couples with shovels in hand as an…
-
Finding Beauty The troubles with travelling & living abroad, and how the mind acts as a portal to help ease the transition. You’re in one place but thinking about the other; simultaneously exploring where you are going to and…
-
What is it like to raise children of mixed races? When does skin colour make a difference? Discover how this creative woman teaches her children to see colour. I am white, Canadian. My husband…
-
Canada was colonially established by explorers. The search for the Northwest Passage became irrelevant along with the need for explorers as industrialization took over. We know our cities, we travel major highways rather than…
-
culture & community home & lifestyle relationships & loveWasting Sweetness (or: How To Wash Clothes By Hand)
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is…
-
It’s dogs barking both close and far. It’s cars reverberating across a bridge whose joints have been sloppily paved over to create heaves that make an empty dump truck bounce and bang. Ker-chunk.…