LIFESTYLE
Fire and Rain
Early June, quiet morning. A gentle rain taps on the maple leaves outside my window Rain! How we need it! We’ve had a few days...
Sacred Journeys – June 2010 by Kim Elkington RSS
The water needs our help before it is destroyed. Through some back room deals, a devastating change has been made to the Fisheries Act that...
Black Flies Love Bananas
Black flies love bananas. Black flies especially like to sip the blood of people who eat bananas. Why should black flies love bananas? Clearly, this...
Sacred Journeys – May 2010
I’ve just returned home from a lovely impromptu Earth Day celebration at our local community centre, and I am buoyed by how much this small...
Looking for Answers Through the Art of Dowsing
In his book, Principles of Dowsing, Dennis Wheatley says “dowsing can be simply defined as a skill to detect invisible targets.” And Raymond C. Willey,...
Ice 2010
Nobody had been on the ice for a week, maybe two. Except for us. We were on the ice every day…until Tuesday. Tuesday morning the...
Sacred Journeys – April 2010
It is spring and the energy is here to plant our seeds, to make our dreams come true. At a collective and energetic level there...
The Five Agreements That Help Me to Change the World
I invite you to participate in a new dream for humanity, one in which all of us can live in harmony, truth and love. In...
Sacred Journeys – March 2010
Everyday Rituals & Celebrations Realizing it has been 15 years (this month) since I wrote my first column for Vitality, I looked up the original...
Maple Syrup
Looks like sugaring season is going to come early this year! Mmmmaple! We ski along a lovely forest trail two kilometres to where the sugar...
Reflections
The moment I stepped onto the dock one hot June day nearly 40 years ago, I knew I had come home. The lake, the forest,...
Sacred Journeys – February 2010
Everyday Rituals & Celebrations The energy as we entered into the year 2010 was intense to say the least. We were being trained like Olympic...
Up North and Off Grid: Living with Solar
Last spring I was in to visit one of our local solar energy suppliers. He has some pretty strong concerns about folks who want to...
Cottaging in Canada – Paddling into Mashkinonje Park
Updated January 3, 2022 Mostly I am a homebody. Why wouldn’t I be? I live in a cozy little cottage in the forest, with a...
Top Ten Ways To Get the Relationship You Always Wanted
Statistics show that we have done a poor job of nurturing healthy relationships with our partners. According to John Gottman, the chance of a first...
Sepia: Homeopathy’s Wise Woman
With our hectic modern lifestyles, increased environmental toxicity, and gradual disconnect from nature’s cycles, it is no wonder that Sepia Officinalis is often called upon...
