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Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022 Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Banff Public Library We are thrilled to welcome Lorraine Widmer-Carson, Author and Founder of Grassroots [...]

The word “condolence” usually pluralized, comes from the Latin word, condolere, meaning “to suffer together”. Synonyms include commiseration, comfort, sympathy. While the meaning of [...]

Have you ever signed up for a course or a conference on a whim? Have you ever spontaneously decided to commit to something that wasn’t in ‘the plan’, but in a moment of curiosity, you decided to [...]

Poet and wise elder, Mary Oliver offers “Instructions for Living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” I think these instructions remind us to find the things that [...]

The words rattling around in my brain this week are: “Persistence” sitting alphabetically between “Patience” and “Perspective”. Persistence, when it comes to my daily [...]

The word rattling around in my brain this week is “Switchbacks”. When used as a noun, “switchback” refers to a zig-zag trail or road that reduces the grade or steepness of [...]

Spring Rites: Write right Question for you – are you interested in using your journal as a way to improve your self-awareness and self-acceptance? Or are you more interested in deepening [...]

In preparation for this month’s muse-letter, I took a look at my “Journal of Words”, a treasure-trove of words and their meanings. There, I found the word “fantods” [...]