My brother and I are heading to So You Think You Can Dance, 2014 top 10 on tour in Vancouver tonight! The 12th season begins in June.
I’m reading a wonderful book called Getting to Maybe, which I highly recommend to anyone working for social change. In very accessible language and through compelling case studies, the book describes the change process based on the interdisciplinary systems view of life. In one chapter, the authors speak of the […] Read More
We have an important vote coming up in our region: the Metro Vancouver Transit and Transportation referendum. The question will be: “Do you support a new 0.5% Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax, to be dedicated to the Mayors’ Transportation and Transit Plan? Yes or No.” Many groups have come out […] Read More
I have read many of Pema Chodron’s books. They are jam-packed with wisdom and her writing is so accessible. In this excerpt, she gives some very practical benefits of meditation. Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we […] Read More
Although it’s been feeling like spring has arrived in this part of the world, it is still two months away. So winter stew season continues and pumpkin or squashes can be both ingredients and containers. If you have a special dinner party coming up, here’s a great recipe from Edible […] Read More
Since the City of Vancouver closed off Point Grey Road, Balsam Street has become a speedway. Drivers cut up the side street, I suppose to avoid the traffic on MacDonald. Cab drivers are among the new speedsters on my formerly quiet residential street. I wonder if there is going to […] Read More
I am regularly terrified riding on Translink’s express buses these days. The speed is particularly disturbing in the longer “articulated” buses, which add another 20 feet to the vehicle. The drivers drive them as if they are small sports cars, apparently taking the word “express” as a license to speed. […] Read More
I read some Kafka at university – such as the short story, In the Penal Colony. I don’t remember him being exactly uplifting, but this is a wonderful story about him that’s been floating around on Facebook recently. Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park […] Read More
[youtube_sc url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNv7Gnar5PE”] Sylvain Émard Danse’s Le Grand Continental debuts at the Vancouver 2015 PuSh Festival. 70 Vancouverites of varying ability gather to learn, rehearse and perform in this feel-good civic dance event of the year! A work colleague of mine is in it, so I’m going to check it out. […] Read More
I got this email and a mailed notice warning me that I may lose my Shaw service unless I sign up for their digital box. Funny thing is, I received a similar email a couple years or so ago when they were “upgrading” my neighbourhood to digital. I didn’t buy […] Read More