This is wedding season, and I know of 3 weddings in the past month among our friends and extended family. We also attended a 70th wedding anniversary celebration! We are honoured to be among over 100 couples we know who have been together and/or married for 25 years or more. Those folks are doing […]
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More information shows that taking part in creative activities can help your brain develop new pathways in your brain, thus releasing the hormone – dopamine – that makes you feel good. It reduces the effects of stress by decreasing anxiety and depression, which contributes to more positive mental health. And good news for us seniors
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I am writing this on June 21st, the summer solstice. It is also National Indigenous Peoples Day, and special events have been happening all across Canada, recognizing the rich and varied traditions and cultures of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. In last week’s post, I mentioned the exhibit at the Art Gallery of
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It’s International Museum Week and I have five museum discoveries to share: one by a friend who attended the Chinese Canadian Museum in Victoria, two new (and the last for 2022 and the next few years) exhibits at the Royal British Columbia Museum that I attended, and two from on-line sources. My friend May
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This past week, listening to the news around the world, I felt like I was living under a dark cloud. The ongoing war in the Ukraine. The number of people forcibly displaced due to violence or protracted conflict in countries including Ukraine, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Nigeria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
We had our first family Easter meal together this past weekend. It was a small gathering, but we were so happy to be able to greet each other with hugs, sit in the same room together eating the same meal, and enjoying each other’s company, after the seclusion during the Covid pandemic. People around
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My painting group reconvened last week after a 3 month break. We are a group of retired professional women who met a few years ago at a painting class, and began meeting last fall, at the home of one of the women, to do water colour painting. Although we were each very much looking
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