'Joy is how we fight back. Facts don't go extinct,' is the Joyful Dino motto. We are a progressive activist group in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We are attending and creating and participating in a number of events connected to Alberta's misguided separatist referendum that includes nine questions - five are racist and four are "stealth separatist questions." We are advocating to vote for Canada and to vote No To the Nine. If you are in the neighbourhood you may want to attend or join in.
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Exploring Mill Creek’s Gardens in Bloom
Our new Neighbourhood In Bloom program began in 2025 and was developed when the Edmonton Horticultural Society collaborated with city Community Leagues. Each league is charged with sending out amateur garden enthusiasts to evaluate local gardens. And the signage is provided by the Edmonton Horticultural Society. There is not competion or awards ceremony. Thus along with another neighbour I helped to organize our Strathcona Community League and five kind neighbour volunteers walked the streets on the lookout for gardens that shine..
Discover Kim Echlin’s “Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil” – and join Kim for May Events in Edmonton
The talented and accomplished Kim Echlin is launching her new nonfiction book Tell Others: Storytelling in a World in Turmoil. Kim visits Edmonton for a reading and interview May 5 & 6. “Censorship, testimony, translation, silencing, and listening—these five words are the beautiful and timely spine of this story. Taking some of the most difficult historical violences of our times as the incitement to read otherwise, Echlin shows the ways in which fiction provides readers a moment of respite. In these pages, the words, language, and stories of others quietly provide us the possibility of community, of refusal, of renewal and of what is possible when we make ourselves available to other accounts of what it means to live a life. We read the writer reading and we share a certain unity through words that produce liberating sensations for collective possibilities beyond despair.” —Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom
A Spanner In the Works
WHEN REPAIRING THE WORLD IS A TOUGH PROPOSITION, BE THANKFUL FOR MINOR DOMESTIC TRIUMPHS -- During COVID (with the help of several Youtube videos), I took apart my broken dishwasher and put the million pieces back together. It lasted several years. Last night I hosted seven women for dinner and after stashing all the dirty… Continue reading A Spanner In the Works
A Near Perfect Day
An almost perfect day unfolds one moment after another.
Yoga’s Autumnal Equinox
Our summer and fall have been especially beautiful in the capital city of Alberta, Edmonton. Summer days are warm or cool - not sweltering as they have been elsewhere.This September, the days are balmy. The garden blooms in late-summer nearing autumnal madness. The nights grow cooler reminding us of change. And today, the autumnal equinox announces our mid-point. A time of reassessment for some. A moment to rebalance for others. ...I am thinking with admiration of my brother who called yesterday to say he was in the hospital mending his heart.
