by Emily Genevish | Aug 9, 2023
Love Letter to an Island was originally written for Latitudes Magazine in March 2016. The Snuneymuxw First Nation consider Saysutshun Newcastle Island a sacred healing ground; some New Age types have suggested it might be a “vortex”—a place of powerful spiritual...
by Sarah Chauncey | Mar 30, 2016
In the summer of 2011, I’d been off antidepressants for more than a year, cigarette-free for eight months and had been building a toolkit of practices to help me find and maintain inner peace. I read about the 29-Day Giving Challenge, based on the book 29 Gifts: How a...
by Sarah Chauncey | Mar 30, 2016
“Are you insane?” I heard my friend Tom, his voice rising at the end of the sentence, his ever-so-slightly sibilant “s” dragging out ‘insane’. I could see his eyebrows raised above those tortoiseshell coke-bottle glasses, that familiar look of incredulity. “I mean,...
