by Kim Holl | Dec 30, 2019 | Blog
by Penny Allport “I don’t really care, I’m not going to be here,” she said matter of factly. The question we had asked in our Living Well – Dying Well program was – what, if any, plans for the care of your body after death, do you have? As the...
by Kim Holl | Sep 2, 2019 | Blog
A Walk Around the Block by Penny Allport This summer I had the blessing of returning to the place of my birth in Ontario to celebrate my parent’s 60th wedding anniversary. 170 family and friends filled a community hall my parent’s had actually fundraised to build in...
by Kim Holl | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
As of January 9th, 2020 marks the beginning of a forth year of the FOUNDATIONS COURSE Bill Israel facilitates for prisoners, as a volunteer, inside the William Head Institution (WHI) on Vancouver Island. The FOUNDATIONS COURSE is a special title given to the INTENSIVE...
by Kim Holl | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
Thoughts on Dr. Progoff’s Journal Workshop by Signed by prisoner X (name withheld), who has been approved for release on parole from the federal Correctional Services Canada penitentiary on Vancouver Island, British Columbia In the past week I have been thinking about...
by Kim Holl | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
In loving memory of Devine Eldenby Penny AllportWelcome to the hitch’n post, the bitch’n post and the psychiatric unit all in one, I heard a voice call across the busy store I had entered.It was November 1, 1988, when I ducked in off a street in Steveston, sheltering...
by Kim Holl | Mar 3, 2019 | Blog
MARCH You are a time of transitions A porous border between winter and spring A fluid line between death and life Here in the North seeds are beginning to stir in the dark womb of Mother Earth You slowly loosen winter’s chilling grip Permitting new shoots of hope to...
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