Looking for a new nature-themed book to share with the kids in your life this summer? In this lovely children’s book, author Jordan Zwetchkenbaum shares her passion for planting and nurturing her garden for the pollinators that inhabit it and for the betterment of the earth. With a vivacious child as their guide, kids will…
Most of the inland lakes I fish contain stocked trout: coastal cutthroats in Helen Lake, Blackwater rainbow trout in Irrigation Lake and eastern brook trout in Klinger Lake. Often this is because there is no spawning stream available for fish to be able to reproduce their ilk. As far as I know, none of these…
I go down to the river to pray. /
Its water tumbles to the Mississippi, /
a major artery, open to the open sea . . .
I’m remembering church picnics. It’s summer nostalgia, of course. The wind in the trees outside my window and the sound of kids playing. I’m leaving church after the service and thinking about watermelon, remembering the tote bag my mom put the thermos in and the way she folded a travelling rug on top and the…
The title of Madeleine Jubilee Saito’s book intrigued me. What, I wondered, are visual poems? And how would poetry be used to contribute to the climate discussion? As I paged through the book the first time, I could tell it wasn’t a usual book of wordy poems. In fact, there weren’t many words at all….
I first noticed it in personal correspondence. It seemed quaint, maybe even a tad archaic. But the word recurred in all the letters, and often many times in each correspondence. There it was in his last letter to me. “I am glad you have reissued [Beyond Homelessness] again.” “I have been so glad to reread…
A blindingly bright January morning. /
In the distance ahead, to the east, /
a wink, /
a glint of metallic shimmer.
Have you ever seen a charcoal painting? Ken van Rees has captured the marks of Saskatchewan burn sites on canvas. The paintings are on exhibit at the Shurniak Gallery in Assiniboia, south of the forest that inspired the series. These canvases have been the work of the last fifteen years. In 2010, van Rees was…
Psychologists have long been interested in attention. It is a phenomenon at the heart of consciousness and self-awareness. It is real for all of us, but at the same time it is not well understood. We all know what is meant by the word attention, but a simple scientific explanation is elusive. Attention can span…
When I moved to B.C., I was amazed at the number of people who travelled from the Prairies, Central and Atlantic Canada to fish. I presumed that I would become a chinook, coho and steelhead fisherman. It didn’t happen. I did continue fishing in streams for the first year or two. Then I was introduced…
When my childhood friend Inge de Beus landed at Pearson International Airport three decades ago for a visit, she sheepishly carried with her a Canon EOS 1000. Neither of us had a clue how to operate it. “No worries,” her partner had said at home in the Netherlands. “It’s foolproof.” And indeed, he was right….
In a note to parents at the conclusion of this hopeful book, which explores what the Bible teaches about heaven, author Jordan Raynor writes that when he was a child, he dreaded the thought of heaven because, after all, what would there be to do for a kid who loved to play and paint. However,…
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