Jill MacCormack
Nightfall Sketches at Waterside
A poem dedicated to my three children and my dear mother whose curiosity about and love of nature constantly inspires my own. Happy...
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Jill MacCormack
- Apr 22
- 3 min
Earth Day 2022, Daffodils and Mindfulness Meditation
Squeezed in between the showers of late April and the greening of early May we celebrate Earth Day as a day to bring kind awareness to...
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Jill MacCormack
- Apr 14
- 4 min
4/14/22--The Darvel's Self-titled Debut Album Drops & Five PEI Teens Make a Music Dream Come True!
https://www.thedarvel.com/ https://linktr.ee/thedarvel Our son and middle child, Lucas MacCormack, is a homeschooled young man who has...
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Jill MacCormack
- Apr 1
- 9 min
to go this world alone...an early springtime woodland meditation on grief...the healing wood
We are not meant to go this world alone. Yet some of us are wired so differently that it’s harder for us than for those more...
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Jill MacCormack
- Mar 18
- 7 min
Love Letter to the Mud—a Mini Meditation to Make you Smile--Happy Almost Spring!
Without mud, there is no lotus. Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So, we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn...
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Jill MacCormack
- Mar 9
- 2 min
A Short Note and Gorgeous Art: International Women's Day 2022
I wrote this yesterday for International Women’s Day (March 8th, 2022) to honour the beauty and strength of the women in my life and all...
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Jill MacCormack
- Mar 1
- 5 min
My Wish for World Peace/// 350.org on the Connection between the Climate Crisis and Ukraine--OIL
My Wish for Peace--Handing You a Seed First written for The Art of Autism Peace Project 2020 about Peace being found by honouring the...
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Jill MacCormack
- Feb 26
- 3 min
Wealth Tax Letter to Department of Finance // Guaranteed Livable Income Update with Senator Kim Pate
To Department of Finance Budget Consultation: When my three very concerned young adults read to me about record high earnings for ...
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Jill MacCormack
- Feb 26
- 6 min
Holding Space for Myriad Possible Outcomes: The Generative Power of the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Last night it took every bit of my well practiced resistance to following my heart’s desires to remain in my own bed once I finally got...
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Jill MacCormack
- Feb 4
- 7 min
Two things to share of import and beauty (PEI BIG Senator Pate Essay & Hoar Frost QA Lace tanka)
When looking out at the glittering world last Wednesday morning after a very cold, very calm night the whole place seemed positively...
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Jill MacCormack
- Jan 16
- 5 min
Whomever Thought of Starlings (and ponderings on potatoes)
Good morning to you, this bright, cold day! Two sharings today: a short poem on beauty, gratitude and joy as a pathway through difficulty...
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Jill MacCormack
- Jan 7
- 8 min
First of Season Storm
When speaking yesterday with my dear west coast sister and her lovely eldest child, they commented on how many tabs they have open on...
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Jill MacCormack
- Jan 1
- 6 min
"The Deeper, Wider Sweep of Things" A New Year's Welcome to Love, Inclusion & Bill C-223/S-233 (BIG)
Just this morning I was speaking with my eternally optimistic yet abundantly realistic (and sometimes gloomy) youngest child. She came...
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Jill MacCormack
- Dec 28, 2021
- 7 min
There is Nothing like the Shore to Welcome You Back to Yourself
This essay was written on a bleak day last November when I was at a very low ebb. Thankfully, the tidal waters of my own life include...
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Jill MacCormack
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Let Breath be the Light you Honour
I want to begin by thanking you for taking time out of your day to pause and glimpse the world through my eyes. I am not sure where you...
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Jill MacCormack
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Scythe Moon
On nights such as this following on the still hot heels of a day as long and drawn as my tired self there it is hanging low and bright in...
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Jill MacCormack
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Winterberry in Earnscliffe...Nov 2015
http://prattleandponder.blogspot.com/2015/11/hunting-winterberries-and-gathering.html Somehow this image was taken (and this piece was...
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Jill MacCormack
- Nov 6, 2021
- 6 min
Group of Senators Issue Statement to Support PEI as Location to Launch BIG & Kim the Senator(tiktok)
Good news! I am sharing (below) an excerpt of a letter from a group of Senators spearheaded by Sen. Kim Pate and shared by Marie Burge in...
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Jill MacCormack
- Nov 4, 2021
- 3 min
Activating Hope Summit with Dr. Jane Goodall//Vegan recipes to Inspire and Nourish//COP26 and Frodo
This is a quick, three mentions blog post to share with you the link to a free webinar series on Hope with leading activists,...
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Jill MacCormack
- Nov 1, 2021
- 1 min
Crown Point Road Preservation----- Moth Tankas
Walking on red clay road plastered with fallen leaves I spy a dead moth. Its perfect form, a still- life Of the inevitable. Walking on...
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