Soon after I moved to this area, I watched a local schoolteacher perform a rap geology lesson about the glaciers that formed this valley. “Ice, ice, baby!” he intoned as he threw down his moves. That joyful, tongue-in-cheek teaching shaped my relationship to this landscape. When I looked out my office window, it was the …
My great-nieces introduced me to the phrase “cheese tax.” I thought they were referring to the duty paid when importing dairy products, but it quickly became clear that they were talking about dogs. “Cheese tax” is that variable percentage of human food offered as canine appeasement. Faced with the doleful, bottomless stare of a dog, …
Join the Wide Spot community dinner as we discuss the practice (and pain) of welcoming “what is”–that is, life on life’s terms. We’ll learn from each other as we share a wonderful meal from Hannah Weisbrich-Collier at the Fireweed Hub. Sponsored by the Fireweed Hub and Turner Zion United Church of Canada. Dinner by donation. …
There were twenty-odd women and one man, dressed in black, standing by the side of the highway in silence. In our hands or around our necks were signs detailing the numbers dead in Gaza, in Israel, in the Ukraine, Syria, Sudan. Signs about starvation. Signs about war in general. Signs about what religions say about …
For me, it starts in the gut: it registers that I’m feeling anxious or even nauseous since reading that news article. For someone else, it starts in the head: noticing there is an endless loop of some distressing event playing in their mind. For yet another, it is felt in the heart: a weight on …
I have been reassembling our freezers, moving turkey and frozen wontons and homemade soup from the inside freezer to the newly empty outside freezer. It’s empty because friends have been able to go home: their frozen chickens, applesauce and tomato paste have gone home, too. I am also re-assembling my office. Strewn across desk and …
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