Pender Island Sea Kayaking Environs May 17-20, 2013 A holiday weekend with the Sea Kayak Association of British Columbia (SKABC), and ferry traffic can confound, but we’ve got reservations to Swartz Bay, Vancouver Island, and from there, an early afternoon ferry gets us to Pender Island Prior Centennial Campground in time to meet some of our SKABC club […]
‘Sand Castles…Fracking as a nursery crime’
Hydraulic fracturing. Nursery rhyme? Or crime? Don Quixote, the first fictional character, was a dreamer. ‘Sand castles in the sky’ was just one of many. What are sand castles in the sky? Big plans, no substance. In gas and oil extraction, we humans march in with big plans like Jack and Jills, trudging uphill with […]
Cross Country Skiing Sun Peaks and Stake Lake
Early March is a good time for a British Columbia winter activity such as cross country skiing at Sun Peaks. Sun Peaks, an hour north of Kamloops, is where we take turns cross country skiing British Columbia terrain. The four-hour drive gets us there before dusk to investigate Village cuisine as well as familiarize in our […]
Cariboo Hills Nordic Skiing with Vancouver Skiers
We’re heading for some Cariboo Hills Nordic Skiing with the Vancouver Skiers. We leave the city over the Port Mann and the Mighty Fraser. Frozen farmland is waking up, and there’s a pink ribbon along the horizon. The sky brightens to eggshell. Many animal tracks crisscross the trails. What are they? Rabbits? Deer? Moose? Where […]
Symphonic Journey: The Great Bear Rainforest Video
Symphonic Journey: The Great Bear Rainforest Video Too Great A Risk to the Environment: Enbridge Pipeline Listen to Joan’s May, 2013 blogtalk radio interview that considers ‘kicking up some spray’ in the youtubing world with a blend of word/movement/music: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ns-writers/2013/05/29/a-live-chat-with-poet-joan-boxall Seated in the kayak, I’ve got a feeling. I’m the conductor of my own orchestra. […]
Poetry: April Is National Poetry Month
The Power of Poetry: A Review by Joan Boxall ‘The Power of Poetry’ by Geoff Olson, writer and political cartoonist, is the centerpiece article in March, 2012’s ‘Common Ground’ magazine. Looking at our politically and economically pressure-cooking world through history, Olson shows how poetry still matters in “its own fugitive…hard-to-quantify (and) subterranean way.” Whether “shoehorned […]
Having Being
Having Being’ Parts I, II & III stem from cultures’ creative contemplations: how we got here, how we interact, how we choose to be versus have. Being trumps having. Joan rollicks in verb conjugation rhythms which are laced throughout. ‘Instill and till those verses’. ‘Having Being’ evokes a dervish dance uncoiled to find our kernel.
Vancouver Memories
Vancouverite with Vagabond Tendencies segue to ‘Having Being’ Part I, II,III Read and Sung by Joan Boxall May 11, 2012 TWSRead @ Take 5 Café, Vancouver Growing up in a protective environment gives rise to rebellion. The secure home where I lived was a corner lot, fenced in, conifer-lined, and cast late-afternoon shadows. Other homes […]
Be Kind to Mother Nature
Be Kind To Mother Nature Don’t miss Mother Nature’s pitch on the Enbridge Northern Pipeline Proposal. Listen to her persuasive podcast: casting out of the pod (aka petroleum’s odourous defect). Podcast Mother Nature pitches her pod (petroleum’s odourous defect) regarding Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. Listen, watch and for rationale, go to ‘Jolly Green […]
Creative Journey: Sketching, Movement and Flow
Creative Journey: Sketching, Movement and Flow Sketching My first blog on the creative journey. Today I was with my brother, a fabulous artist who combines impressionism with his own style. We were sketching in a three-hour figurative session as we do every week, side by side, when another artist came along to observe what we’d […]