by Heather | Jan 24, 2017 | Uncategorized, Co-householding, Community, Day to day life, Health and wellbeing
I was recently approached by Anna from an American website called Calmful Living, which focuses on “calm mind, calm body, calm living”. Anna had read about us, and felt that our lifestyle might be tranquility-inducing as people approach retirement....
by Heather | Apr 27, 2016 | Uncategorized, Art and beauty, Community, Day to day life, Relationships
I crossed the Great Divide between middle age and elderly this weekend. There is suddenly a barely-fathomable “7” at the front of my age-digits. I decided several months ago that I might as well use this coming upheaval as a cause for celebration—after all, as they...
by Heather | Mar 3, 2016 | Uncategorized, Community, Day to day life, Travel
We gathered last week for the interment of a dream. Here’s the story: Some years ago housemate Daniel and I started kicking around the idea of jointly buying a 6-foot tinny for puttering around the local waterways. The Manning Valley has some 150 kilometres of river,...
by Heather | Feb 19, 2016 | Uncategorized, Community, Day to day life, Health and wellbeing, Society
My intention is not to make you jealous, but beware, it could happen—I’m about to describe our community choir. I joined this choir some six or seven years ago. We meet weekly in a country town about a half hour’s drive from here. The town is Wingham and the...
by Heather | Jan 22, 2016 | Uncategorized, Co-householding, Community, Day to day life, Health and wellbeing, Relationships, Society
Eve and I were approached this week by Focus, a local community magazine, to be interviewed for an article on the Shedders. We do get a fair bit of publicity, and each time, I am reminded about what a smart (not to mention interesting) phenomenon we have created here...
by Heather | Sep 13, 2015 | Community, Day to day life, Relationships
As I write this the little screen in front of me tells me that I am 33,472 feet above sea level. Courtesy of Air Canada, I am enroute from a three month summer on Vancouver Island, headed toward home and spring in Mitchells Island, Australia. I have left behind my...