It’s been seven years since I was asked to advise on the Living Well – Dying Well program for The Centre for Earth & Spirit. Dr. Robin J Hood, John Shields and Kim Holl held a series of community consultations in 2015 researching their hunch that folks just...
“Now you two don’t need to worry, as your father and I have taken care of all of that stuff”, my mother said matter-of-factly to my brother and I. For the first time in many years, my parents, in their late seventies, my only brother and I were alone together in the...
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...
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...
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...
On a summer journey home in July to officiate a family wedding near where I was born in Ontario, I spent a day with my Aunt Beryl at her request. At 84, Aunt Beryl wanted to visit the Cemetery where she had pre-purchased a plot many years earlier, in hopes of...
