One heart – One beat – One drum It was early spring, and after suffering in silence for well over a decade with a rare heart/artery disease, I was forced to come to terms with it. Boy, did I ever… Everything that cloudy morning felt easy, light. I was like a baby down feather drifting […]
Family
Striking Stick
When someone asks me such a general question, one without any real depth…something as simple as “How are you doing?”, “How’s it going?”, “How’s the day?”…the obligatory response is “very well, thank you”, “not bad, and you?”, and you both exchange a meaningless super “Canadian” friendly gesture, and on with the struggle of the day. […]
THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES
I am the eldest of three daughters, and we are all quite close in age (my Dad is one lucky guy). At the age of six my parents decided to move our family back to my Dad’s reserve of Gitlaxt’aamix (formally known as New Aiyansh, B.C.) and I remember being so completely excited that we […]