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Jill MacCormack

Nov 15, 20212 min read

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, 20216 min read

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, 20213 min read

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, 20211 min read

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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Jill MacCormack

Oct 20, 20212 min read

Let's Talk Basic Income Guarantee as a Vital Key to Dignity for All

Because I believe that everyone should have the ability to have their basic needs for food and shelter met with dignity, I am sharing...

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Jill MacCormack

Oct 17, 20215 min read

Walking at Night Takes Care of so Much

There are certain autumn nights when the quality of air is of such utter perfection that no matter my exhaustion I must heed the call of...

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Jill MacCormack

Sep 30, 20215 min read

Ma'kit and her Dolls and a Mi'kmaq Family's Kindness to my Mother--Truth and Reconciliation Day 2021

On this solemn day of remembrance I welcome you to two very different stories of two Maritime women's experiences with dolls. The first...

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Jill MacCormack

Sep 29, 20213 min read

Just Transition Act--Share Your Voice

For anyone interested, there are several ways to give input on the Just Transition Act that Justin Trudeau promised and you can add your...

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A Bit of Inspiration to Be the Change we Seek on this Day of Global Climate Marches, 2021

Jill MacCormack

Sep 24, 20214 min read

A Bit of Inspiration to Be the Change we Seek on this Day of Global Climate Marches, 2021

Dappled Sunlight on Blue-beaded Lily in Eastern PEI Woodland, Sept 2021 I can't recall the circumstances surrounding the first time I...

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Jill MacCormack

Aug 28, 202111 min read

PEI Food Strategy and the Development of Underdevelopment-A Cautionary Tale-Josue de Castro

A piece I wrote six years ago in response to the PEI gov'ts release of the document promoting PEI as the Food Island:http://www.foodislan...

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Jill MacCormack

Aug 22, 20217 min read

The Land is Alive

Thanks to inspiration from Gary Schneider's beautiful presentation on forests as part of the Protecting PEI Lands and Waters--It's Urgent...

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Jill MacCormack

Aug 9, 20213 min read

Because I Love this World: Another Letter to the Prime Minister about Mitigating Climate Change

I wrote this tongue- in- cheek (but also truly heart- in- hand) letter last week. I find it tiring to think of a possible federal...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 30, 20212 min read

The Joy They Offer--Antidotes to Despair

Cheering on baby bird's is a lesson in hoping for the best and bearing witness to the joy in small things. As I type this, a mother...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 30, 20211 min read

May we see the folly of our ways...

On seeing that we may have already reached some tipping points, while in some strange way, most of us, for the most part, go on about our...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 22, 20215 min read

Three Boys and Death of a Yard Crow

We were in the dining room just after supper when we heard a wild ruckus of Crows calling out near our house. We wondered aloud: What are...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 21, 20211 min read

Summer Night, Moon Landing Tanka

Nose pressed to window, Eyes creep up hollyhock stem On wild, rain-soaked blooms, Land on loose, gauze- draped shoulder of moon--sigh,...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 12, 20211 min read

Yellow Butterfly at Waterside

Yellow butterfly splayed out on red dirt road so still we thought it dead and sought to take it to our home to put under a dome Instead...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 7, 20211 min read

A Very Rare Delight--Baby Northern Cardinal Sighted Twice this Week just off the Stratford Trail

There are not words for the way my breath was captured last evening when in the evergreens along a wooded path, our oldest daughter Maria...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 4, 20212 min read

Welcome to PEI, a family of Northern Cardinals nesting in Stratford

This evening we headed out to look for apple sticks for our rabbits and were walking in a nearby park when a cute little skunk came...

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Jill MacCormack

Jul 1, 20212 min read

Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: 94 Calls to Action on Reconciliation

Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Instead of celebrating Canada Day, I walked this evening with my family in a march to honour all...

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