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Jill MacCormack
Apr 23, 20236 min read
the day after "Earth Day", now what? Wilson, Leopold, Dickinson, Raworth & Lent, lend us hope
6 am April 23/23 As night, seamless, shifts the tide toward daylight, sweet hope is my heart's river-blood. A crescendo of birdsong...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 13, 20237 min read
the Honeybees, the Clothesline and the Woodcock: three PEI Springtime Tales to Warm your Spirit
Three short tales of springtime glimmers buzzing, flapping, chirping and clacking their way into my heart this month as we celebrate...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 10, 20233 min read
"Agriculture"means"Care for the Land"
A Brief Reflection on a Just Transition from Extractive to Regenerative Agriculture Imagine Island agriculture where seed and land are...
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Jill MacCormack
Mar 28, 20237 min read
The Status Quo never Serves the Masses: Moving Toward a Just Transition using a Systems Theory Lens
Hello this late March day from a very snowy island in a warming sea. It would seem we are having our January and February weather all in...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 31, 20239 min read
traversing the tangle to love--a snowy morning's walk on the path of healing
Snow, soft and quiet, Falling and forgiving the Harshness in my heart. What does this heart beat for but love? On a difficult morning I...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 3, 202311 min read
the seeing stone...new year...new possibility... and the restless longing for change
The questions and the wanting: Are new beginnings ever truly possible if we must live out of the patterns of our own personal history...
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Jill MacCormack
Oct 4, 20222 min read
these woods, all lit, with birdsong
Acknowledgments to Anna Akhmatova's "a land, not mine, still" https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/A/AkhmatovaAnn/Alandnotmine/index.ht...
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Jill MacCormack
May 8, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20229 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20226 min read
"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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