What I’ve been up to:
Listening to flamenco, and the rain.
What was beautiful:
What I’m reading and listening to:
BOOKS –
VARIOUS PIECES ON UNCEDED TERRITORY –
The incredibly cool Native land map really shows how complex this is. Another map is here
Canada’s Impossible Acknowledgement – at the Guardian
Vancouver Milestone (2014)
BC Milestone (2017). “the courts have been increasingly firm that the Crown in B.C. does not have clear title to the land and its resources…In the rush to establish the colony of British Columbia, governor James Douglas skipped over the stage of negotiating treaties. In 1859, he issued a proclamation that declared all the lands and resources in British Columbia belong to the Crown. At that time, the colony had about 1,000 Europeans and an estimated 30,000 Indigenous people.”
Our home is on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam (xʷmәθkʷәy̓әm), TsleilWauthuth (Sәl̓ílwәtaʔ/Selilwitulh), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Kwiketlam (Coquitlam) First Nations.
We acknowledge our home is built on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people – səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Qayqayt, and Stz’uminus, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations.
And then there’s this:
VARIOUS PIECES ON DOGS-
Dogs can pick up on our stress
And a similar piece on raven communication
Some more articles –
The positive effect of puppies on marriages. For a school paper I’m writing.
Turkish temple pre-dates Stonehenge by 6,000 years
Having someone to love and something to do isn’t everything. Do less and disconnect?
How to choose a psychotherapist