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Community of Practice Meeting – Feb 10th
This is the second Community of Practice meeting in a community-led format, but if you missed the last meeting, new participants are still welcome! The question we’ll be brainstorming is: “How can we use the info gathered from community members by Community Leagues to build stronger, vibrant neig...
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This is the second Community of Practice meeting in a community-led format, but if you missed the last meeting, new participants are still welcome! The question we’ll be brainstorming is: “How can we use the info gathered from community members by Community Leagues to build stronger, vibrant neig...
Published at Allendale Community League
Monday Music Appreciation #22 -- Smile
I've always loved this beautiful melody, sung by Nat King Cole. If I'm not mistaken, my parents had the recording when I was small, and another version sung by The Lettermen.It wasn't until I worked at a jazz event at the Winspear that I learned that the originator of Smile was none other th...
Published at Simple Moodlings
I've always loved this beautiful melody, sung by Nat King Cole. If I'm not mistaken, my parents had the recording when I was small, and another version sung by The Lettermen.It wasn't until I worked at a jazz event at the Winspear that I learned that the originator of Smile was none other th...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Sunday Reflection: Harden not your hearts
Demolitions continue...Today's reflection is brought to you by Psalm 95.Today the psalmist invites us to harden not [our] hearts.Tall order in a world that says otherwise.The world's voice encourages hardness.Compete.Overcome.Win. Rise to the top.But if we are to listen to Cre...
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Demolitions continue...Today's reflection is brought to you by Psalm 95.Today the psalmist invites us to harden not [our] hearts.Tall order in a world that says otherwise.The world's voice encourages hardness.Compete.Overcome.Win. Rise to the top.But if we are to listen to Cre...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Simple pleasures -- Friday, chai day
The first time I ever tasted chai, my friend Mina's mom, Mrudula, made it for me. Who knew how good black pepper, cardamom, ginger, and other spices could be when steeped with Taj Mahal tea and scalded milk? Some years later, Mrudula shared her masala recipe with me, and ever since, whenever I've...
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The first time I ever tasted chai, my friend Mina's mom, Mrudula, made it for me. Who knew how good black pepper, cardamom, ginger, and other spices could be when steeped with Taj Mahal tea and scalded milk? Some years later, Mrudula shared her masala recipe with me, and ever since, whenever I've...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Beading Workshop
Learn to bead! 🔴 Anishinaabe community member Roxanne Mckenzie will offer a cultural perspective on beading while walking you through the beadwork of your choice: a beaded red dress which honours the memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls or a beaded strawberry (O-day’min) r...
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Learn to bead! 🔴 Anishinaabe community member Roxanne Mckenzie will offer a cultural perspective on beading while walking you through the beadwork of your choice: a beaded red dress which honours the memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls or a beaded strawberry (O-day’min) r...
Published at DECL
Monday Music Appreciation #21 -- Nella Fantasia
Warning: the first time I heard Nella Fantasia from this Sarah Brightman album, it brought me to tears. And I'm pretty sure I've moodled about it before, but it deserves to be appreciated again, in my humble opinion.Nella Fantasia is a piece of music that was composed for the movie The Mission by...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Warning: the first time I heard Nella Fantasia from this Sarah Brightman album, it brought me to tears. And I'm pretty sure I've moodled about it before, but it deserves to be appreciated again, in my humble opinion.Nella Fantasia is a piece of music that was composed for the movie The Mission by...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Sunday Reflection: A Prayer for Christian Unity
The Icon of Mercyfrom the Taizé CommunityA lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher”, he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all ...
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The Icon of Mercyfrom the Taizé CommunityA lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher”, he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all ...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Book me for Canadian Children’s Book Week!
Canadian Children’s Book Week is open for bookings until February 2, 2024. Cape Breton teachers and librarians, the CCBC will be sending me your way in late April/early May to do author visits. These are subsidized by the CCBC so your costs will be minimal. Folks in other parts of Canada, I...
Published at Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Canadian Children’s Book Week is open for bookings until February 2, 2024. Cape Breton teachers and librarians, the CCBC will be sending me your way in late April/early May to do author visits. These are subsidized by the CCBC so your costs will be minimal. Folks in other parts of Canada, I...
Published at Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
What a housing emergency means
Yesterday, Mayor Sohi here in Edmonton declared a housing emergency in an effort to bring all levels of government together to come up with housing solutions. A good step, but there's a long way to go. At this point, it's anybody's guess as to whether other government officials will actually show...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Yesterday, Mayor Sohi here in Edmonton declared a housing emergency in an effort to bring all levels of government together to come up with housing solutions. A good step, but there's a long way to go. At this point, it's anybody's guess as to whether other government officials will actually show...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Encampment stories
The start of this year has been brutal for our houseless sisters and brothers in Edmonton. Not that life isn't brutal for them all year round, but for the last few weeks, it's been particularly bad as the Edmonton Police Service and City of Edmonton cleanup crews decided, in the days before Chris...
Published at Simple Moodlings
The start of this year has been brutal for our houseless sisters and brothers in Edmonton. Not that life isn't brutal for them all year round, but for the last few weeks, it's been particularly bad as the Edmonton Police Service and City of Edmonton cleanup crews decided, in the days before Chris...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Sunday Reflection: One good word for 2024
Happy New Year, friends!A symbol of 2024's word of the yearEvery year since 2003, I've tried to keep a special Word of the Year in mind, a touchstone of sorts to hold me steady when life becomes challenging. My word for 2023 was Appreciation, and there definitely was lots to appreciate. (Don't wo...
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Happy New Year, friends!A symbol of 2024's word of the yearEvery year since 2003, I've tried to keep a special Word of the Year in mind, a touchstone of sorts to hold me steady when life becomes challenging. My word for 2023 was Appreciation, and there definitely was lots to appreciate. (Don't wo...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Ice rink cancelled this year
Due to unusually high temperatures this year, we are reluctantly forced to cancel the ice rink. Our hearts are hanging low. 💔 Q: “Why?! Winter just started!” A: For us to make ice for the rink, temperatures consistently need to be below -10°C. It takes about 2 weeks of these low temperatu...
Published at Allendale Community League
Due to unusually high temperatures this year, we are reluctantly forced to cancel the ice rink. Our hearts are hanging low. 💔 Q: “Why?! Winter just started!” A: For us to make ice for the rink, temperatures consistently need to be below -10°C. It takes about 2 weeks of these low temperatu...
Published at Allendale Community League
Yoga with Kelly starts January 16th!
A new set of yoga sessions is starting this month! Yoga with Kelly will take you through yoga postures to strengthen the body, enhance flexibility, improve posture and balance, calm the mind, and synchronize breath with movement. 7 sessions: January (16, 23, 30), February (13, 20, 27), and...
Published at Allendale Community League
A new set of yoga sessions is starting this month! Yoga with Kelly will take you through yoga postures to strengthen the body, enhance flexibility, improve posture and balance, calm the mind, and synchronize breath with movement. 7 sessions: January (16, 23, 30), February (13, 20, 27), and...
Published at Allendale Community League
Jump on the bandwagon!
Last December... almost the same today.This morning, the Edmonton Police Service and City cleanup crews took down a homeless encampment (they've been doing it for weeks) in spite of the fact that there is a court injunction in place until January 11th to protect our homeless folks if there aren't...
Published at Simple Moodlings
Last December... almost the same today.This morning, the Edmonton Police Service and City cleanup crews took down a homeless encampment (they've been doing it for weeks) in spite of the fact that there is a court injunction in place until January 11th to protect our homeless folks if there aren't...
Published at Simple Moodlings
On the Feast of the Holy Innocents
Warning: this is not a happy Christmas moodling.Remember the Bible story (a dream version of which I shared yesterday) about King Herod sending soldiers to Bethlehem to kill all the babies two years of age and under so that the promised Messiah could not unseat him as king? Today is the day ...
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Warning: this is not a happy Christmas moodling.Remember the Bible story (a dream version of which I shared yesterday) about King Herod sending soldiers to Bethlehem to kill all the babies two years of age and under so that the promised Messiah could not unseat him as king? Today is the day ...
Published at Simple Moodlings
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