(The following represents my own thoughts). Each year there are a percentage of students in post secondary who go through the process of gaining accommodations for their coursework. This is not specific to any one institution and is expected practice across all colleges and universities in Canada. Students are applying for accommodation in greater numbers…
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Morning meditation
I’ve been thinking a lot about loss. There is so much loss in so many of my friends’ and family members’ lives right now. Loss is so universal and so incredibly, exquisitely personal at the same time. I sat in the garden this morning with my paints for the first time in a long time,…
Bridging Rural Homelessness and Well-Being Summit: Personal Reflections and Graphic Recording
Graphic recording takes me into some of the most amazing rooms. I’ll be forever grateful for the opportunities that this work affords me, for sure. What follows here are my personal takeaways, not to be confused with official report out. This week I got to be a willing listener to 140 or so people as…
Engaging Beyond Words – Online Workshop
Amanda, Michelle and I had a meeting yesterday and have opted to push our Hybrid workshop fully online! The good news for you is that we’ve extended the early bird pricing – we’re cooking up some serious fun! You can learn more and register at Michelle’s website. Can’t wait to see you! It’s going to…
AI Musings on a Snowy Tuesday
Each time I log into my website to work on the back end, I have to complete a captcha and check a box to ‘prove’ that I’m human. I’ve always had confidence that humans – not computers – are capable of certain things – particularly when it comes to art, writing creatively, and other generative,…
Productivity While Working at Home in a Rapidly Changing Time
I don’t know how it’s felt for you, but for me the last few weeks have been a blur of change. I’ve been here 10 days now, physically distancing, and doing my best to balance work with my home life, my worries with my gratitude. This time hasn’t been as productive as I’ve wanted it…
Stop-Motion Animation Tutorial (long)
This past week has been a whole lot of fun, and a lot of work. I made a 3 minute stop-motion animation for the Kootenay Real Estate Board, using cut paper for the characters. A friend (Hi Sean!) asked if I would share how I do things like that, so here you go: Lisa’s Ideosyncratic…
Thank you for taking time to talk.
Thank you so much to all of you who wrote to me to talk about my last post. It made me realize how much I’ve missed the blogging world of over a decade ago when we’d have real discussions in the comments sections and through private messaging. I’m endeavoring to breathe life back into my…
Change is the only constant.
It really is. Change sweeps us up and pushes us along. It’s funny, after 45 I thought my identity was pretty much fully formed. I’ve been a wife, I am a Mom, a Friend, and an Artist, among many other things. A big thing I’ve been over the past 10-ish years is an Education Assistant…
Graphic recording in Trail – some thoughts
I’ve been busy these last couple weeks with all kinds of things, but most notably, working with the Poverty Reduction Summit – Striving to Thriving in Trail. We had our first part of the Summit last week, and are looking forward to some real ‘feet on the ground’ action next week. I can only hope…
New Experiments – sharpening my saw
We had a 4 day weekend here recently – something that I don’t often allow myself to embrace fully. This huge luxury of free time! What would I do with it all? I rolled out a new 4′ X 6′ paper on the wall of my working space and started looking at the next 3…
Two more energizers
Further to last post, I thought I could include a couple more ways to get a group moving: Silvia‘s energizer was fun and got us moving. I don’t know what to call it and so name it: Silvia’s energizer The group stands. Starting with one arm, shake it vigorously while counting to 16. Switch to…
Other projects – words and games
Well, scheduled posting is a great thing. While it seems like I’ve been here all week creating new posts about our time in Bernay-en-Ponthieu, the reality of my life has involved a lot of cleaning my basement. The flood has now been diverted, thanks to a lot of help from a dear friend, and my…
Post Bernay-en-Ponthieu
I’m here, settled back in the apartment with Mom in Paris. It’s been a whirlwind. The time in Bernay has been full of all kinds of growth and change – much of it will take time to really understand and articulate. We did more in a day than I could ever have imagined and the…
Big news!
I’ve been sitting on this since Sunday. I’ve been accepted to join an artist residency in France in February/March 2017 in Bernay en Ponthieu with Nomadways.eu for a workshop by the name of Stories We Tell: Stories We Tell will invite artists and youth workers from various corners of Europe to meet and exchange on…