Jill MacCormackMay 82 minNightfall 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...
Jill MacCormackApr 233 minEarth Day 2022, Daffodils and Mindfulness MeditationSqueezed 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...
Jill MacCormackApr 154 min4/14/22--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...
Jill MacCormackApr 19 minto go this world alone...an early springtime woodland meditation on grief...the healing woodWe 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...
Jill MacCormackMar 187 minLove 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...
Jill MacCormackMar 92 minA Short Note and Gorgeous Art: International Women's Day 2022I 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...
Jill MacCormackMar 15 minMy Wish for World Peace/// 350.org on the Connection between the Climate Crisis and Ukraine--OILMy Wish for Peace--Handing You a Seed First written for The Art of Autism Peace Project 2020 about Peace being found by honouring the...
Jill MacCormackFeb 263 minWealth Tax Letter to Department of Finance // Guaranteed Livable Income Update with Senator Kim PateTo Department of Finance Budget Consultation: When my three very concerned young adults read to me about record high earnings for ...
Jill MacCormackFeb 266 minHolding Space for Myriad Possible Outcomes: The Generative Power of the Stories We Tell OurselvesLast 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...
Jill MacCormackFeb 47 minTwo 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...
Jill MacCormackJan 165 minWhomever 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...
Jill MacCormackJan 88 minFirst of Season StormWhen speaking yesterday with my dear west coast sister and her lovely eldest child, they commented on how many tabs they have open on...
Jill MacCormackJan 26 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...
Jill MacCormackDec 28, 20217 minThere is Nothing like the Shore to Welcome You Back to YourselfThis 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...
Jill MacCormackDec 19, 20215 minLet 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...
Jill MacCormackDec 8, 20212 minScythe MoonOn 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...
Jill MacCormackNov 15, 20212 minWinterberry in Earnscliffe...Nov 2015http://prattleandponder.blogspot.com/2015/11/hunting-winterberries-and-gathering.html Somehow this image was taken (and this piece was...
Jill MacCormackNov 7, 20216 minGroup 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...
Jill MacCormackNov 4, 20213 minActivating Hope Summit with Dr. Jane Goodall//Vegan recipes to Inspire and Nourish//COP26 and FrodoThis is a quick, three mentions blog post to share with you the link to a free webinar series on Hope with leading activists,...
Jill MacCormackNov 2, 20211 minCrown Point Road Preservation----- Moth TankasWalking on red clay road plastered with fallen leaves I spy a dead moth. Its perfect form, a still- life Of the inevitable. Walking on...