“I canot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” Lillian Hellman
This weekend on the west side of Vancouver there is an amazing event happening. Its called Artists in Our Midst. Every year artists open their homes and studio to the public to share their art. its a wonderful way to experience art, buy art and also meet your neighbors who are artists. I will
“Why is it when I don’t know what I want, there is always someone waiting to tell me what it is? I’m just lucky I guess.” Anne Wilson Schaef
I plan to go to the restaurant East of Main just to see what two sisters have create. Maureen Webb and Donalda Weaver set it up as a fundraiser for a free performing arts program for kids: Project Limelight. And apparently it’s great and reasonable priced food! CONGRATULATIONS! Go to 223 East George Street
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you!” Isadora Duncan
“While we wait in silence for the final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.” Audre Lorde
I watched the U-Tube video by Dr Shefali Tsabary on conscious parenting. She was in Vancouver this week. I agree with her when she says that parenting involves being more conscious. It sure does. And I am urged to wake up every day by my daughters. But the focus on parenting reminds me that we place
“We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” Mary Lamberton Becker
Tonight at 7pm there is an event at the downtown Vancouver Public Library (VPL) “Inhabiting Women’s Space” where four authors present. On Monday, also at The VPL at 7pm there is an airing of the documentary “Status Quo?” directed by Karen Cho about the women’s movement in Canada. I will be there!
I did not know Edith but I am riding on a road she built. She died at age 91 and was the last of four female flight attendants who in the 1940’s organized a union to fight for equal rights for “stewardesses.” In the 1940’s airline attendants who got married got fired. They were