Bite size servings of pun, fun and wisdom to spice up your world! My posts are coming very far between. I think of you my blog friends. I feel like I kept you hanging. Thank you for hanging around though. It has been a crazy schedule and let me share to you how crazy it is, here. I need to inventory my life. I am sorry that I need to say farewell to this refuge and to you my blog friends. But thank God, He is always there to comfort me.

Removing plastic from the ocean, one bag at a time. On Friday some of this work was unveiled at a solo show at the Slide Room Gallery in Victoria BC.

A story about a wild transgression. My dream started in 1983 in Australia, it came from a magazine called Simple Living. A very glossy magazine with more adverts about face creams than about growing pumpkins. A trip, a long trip followed up the New South Wales coast to Byron Bay. A bit inland lays a magical place called Nimbin. The north of Lismore, a place filled with alternative communities. Came my way, on the coast of Old South Wales, 16.

Iceland supermarket vows to eliminate plastic on all own-branded products! January 17, 2018. Talk about positive action! Iceland has become the first major retailer to commit to eliminate plastic packaging for all its own-brand products. Read the entire story here. Slide Ranch and the southern Marin Coast. Coho salmon return to Lagunitas Creek to spawn.

Essays connecting nature, culture, self. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Regarding Lichen, Tin House Online. I mean the classes, the contests, the urge to recreate.

Artist Jo Atherton works with found objects gathered on the UK coastline. Artist Jo Atherton has exhibited her unique flotsam weaving around the UK and beyond, at venues including the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. And the University of Edinburgh. In 2017, Jo was invited to speak at the University of Cambridge. In support of their Curious Objects. Exhibition, and subsequently Being Human. The National Festival of the Humanities. She also produced a weekend of activities beneath the iconic Cutty Sark.