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Wide Spot, July 2021: The Answer, My Friend…

July 24, 2021 By Therese DesCamp

If you’re as old as I am, you’re already singing the next line in this iconic Dylan song.  You also know that the answer “blowing in the wind” is both blindingly obvious and as ephemeral as a breeze … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, community, consciousness, interconnection, Joy, Let It Flutter, Pandemic, Practices, Wide Spot Column

Wide Spot, June 2021: Fresh New Hell

July 11, 2021 By Therese DesCamp

The line “What fresh new hell is this?” was famously coined by the American critic Dorothy Parker when her writing was interrupted by the telephone. There’s something deeply true captured by Parker’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, activism, community, Compassion, connection, contemplative, group, interconnection, Interfaith, Pandemic, Practices, spiritual, spirituality, suffering, values, Wide Spot Column

Let It Flutter

June 18, 2021 By Wide Spot Admin Leave a Comment

LET IT FLUTTER is a cooperative project of Wide Spot and the Slocan Lake Arts Council. During June, July, and early August, residents of the Slocan Lake area are invited to pick up flags from the Let … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Arts, community, interconnection, Pandemic, Practices, Prayer Flags, Slocan Lake

Wide Spot, April 2021: Close the Language Door

May 4, 2021 By Therese DesCamp

I thank my lucky stars (as my mom used to say) that I have a dog. Among other things, having a dog means that I am committed, no matter how somnolent, to an 11 p.m. walk every night around the front … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, cognitive linguistics, connection, contemplative, language, Pandemic, Practices, prayer, quiet, Rumi, Super Moon, values, Wide Spot Column

Wide Spot, March 2021: Fact or Feeling?

March 15, 2021 By Therese DesCamp

Two conversations and two questions: in the first exchange, a woman assured me that she was right in her stance about wearing/not wearing a mask because she could “feel it in her body.” In the second, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, community, connection, curiosity, facts, feelings, logic, mistrust, Pandemic, Practices, sensation, trauma, values, Wide Spot Column

Contemplative in the Kootenays

March 28, 2020 By Wide Spot Admin Leave a Comment

Contemplative in the Kootenays will meet on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The day begins at 10 am and ends at 3 pm. WE WILL BE MEETING ON LINE, DIRECTIONS BELOW. We’ll begin with centering prayer … [Read more...]

Tagged With: centring prayer, communion, connection, contemplative, Contemplative Christianity, lectio divina, meditation, Practices, spiritual, spirituality

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Wide Spot is a project of the Turner Zion Pastoral Charge of The United Church of Canada. This program has been funded in part by the BC Conference ProVision Fund. Wide Spot has been developed in collaboration between Turner Zion and Heart’s Rest Retreats.

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