Jill MacCormack
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Sharing our stories, speaking our truths. These are choices women can make going forward which will engender a culture of inclusion,...
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Jill MacCormack
Mar 5, 20215 min read
Nasturtiums, You Wonder?
While gazing upon my garden bed in summertime everyone always asks me: Why do you plant nasturtiums? They ask as though my choice to do...
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Jill MacCormack
Feb 17, 20214 min read
Twirling in a Winter Wood
Something deep inside me was awakened. An old self, long ignored, acknowledged. Play was the pathway to this connection. When I was just...
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Jill MacCormack
Feb 11, 20214 min read
Sounds in Nature-- Our Anchors to Sensory Awareness--Barred Owl
Seek always the embrace of nature as it will hold you when others can’t. This morning, while listening to a meditation talk on awareness,...
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Jill MacCormack
Feb 5, 20213 min read
Narnia--A Snowy Morning Dreamscape
I could say it’s been one of those mornings—I awoke from an awful, vivid nightmare with a woozy headed “how can I face the world” sort of...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 31, 20215 min read
Love with Fierce Tenderness for We Know what Awaits on Life's Trails
Speaking with my mother on the phone she tells me that my father thinks they should send condolences to a former co-worker of his whose...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 29, 20213 min read
Where I'm From
Composed February, 2018 Where I’m From Pin point it on a space-time map: 1:05am Friday, August 17th, 1973 Charlottetown, Prince Edward...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 19, 20211 min read
Painted Winter Beauties
Painted Beauties Tanka Crested- feathered, fruit- Eaters, this bird is winter’s Artsy friend –Eye lines Winged thicker than Clara’s –both...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 19, 20211 min read
PEI Weather Haiku-- January 19th, 2021
Jabbing Cold (Haiku) Jabbing cold--finger prick into awareness of the moment at hand. Wishing you warmth! Jill
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 17, 20212 min read
Red Fox (Vulpes, vulpes) at Midnight
Last eve, while drifting in and out of the wind howls of midnight sleep, I heard the familiar "disturbing, somewhat childlike, raspy...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 13, 20214 min read
Stillness, Presence-Meditation on Sensory Awareness-Precariousness-A Barred Owl and Snowshoe Hare
We live in a culture of chronic inattention. With inattention, we miss the meal in front of us, the changing scenery, the open-hearted...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Creating a Clearing--Daily Meditation for A Sense of Spaciousness Surrounding Difficulties
This morning I am beginning a new 40 day meditation course. Although I have studied/practiced meditation over the past dozen years and...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Winter Haiku and Tanka
Haiku 1) Changelings Snow Buntings flock o'er wintry field--shifting, bright flash of light-- my wild eyes. 2) Hurt Sky at Waterside...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 6, 20211 min read
Note to my 15 year old, Beginning to Write Fiction
dive deep, beginning fiction writer do not make the exciting process of exploration wrong be curious as any new explorer would be and...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 4, 20211 min read
Evening Primrose Tanka
In wintry garden dried stalks, brown leaves, stand lonely. Where have your soft, pale blooms at eventide gone? In summer ere return, I...
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Jill MacCormack
Jan 3, 20216 min read
What Goodness Local Veggies Bring
When reflecting on what goodness helped carry me through 2020 I noticed that over and over again several things arose, one of which was...
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Jill MacCormack
Dec 31, 20202 min read
The White Rabbit Bids Adieu to 2020!
These final weeks of 2020 I have had the almost daily honour of encounters with at least one, if not two, brilliantly white, snowshoe...
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Jill MacCormack
Dec 28, 20203 min read
"Whose Woods These Are..."
Snuggled in my bed under a comforter with a heating pad trying to warm myself up after a chill settled in during a glorious mid afternoon...
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Jill MacCormack
Dec 27, 20204 min read
Hillsborough Bird Count Dec 2020
In my growing up years, count days were sacrosanct. Only the severest of weather or illness could interfere. Come hell or high water...
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Jill MacCormack
Dec 21, 20202 min read
Happy Winter Solstice 2020--Wishing you a Cosmic Christmas!
Yesterday afternoon Maria, Lucas and I went on a glorious, woodland walk. The evergreens were dusted with a smattering of snow and it was...
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