by suzukiwebmaster | Feb 25, 2021 | Book Reviews, Personal Reflections, Recent Posts
British Columbia in flames: stories from a blazing summer by Claudia Cornwall Harbour Publishing Ltd | 2020 | 289 pages Fires have always been an integral part and process of British Columbia’s forests for as long as mankind has occupied and traversed the land. The...
by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 19, 2020 | Book Reviews, Developing Resilience
Life Is In The Transitions: Mastering Change At Any Age by Bruce Feiler Penguin Random House LLC 2020| 368pp. Believe it or not, we are now in the ninth month of the COVID-19 crisis. According to the WHO the present epidemic raised its spiky viral head for the first...
by suzukiwebmaster | Dec 17, 2019 | Book Reviews
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer Hamish Hamilton | 2019 | 272 pages This is one of those books which deals with a divisive subject (climate change) and then creates yet more discord amongst readers because of the...
by suzukiwebmaster | Sep 22, 2019 | Book Reviews, Intergenerational Story Project
The Overstory by Richard Powers W.W. Norton & Company | 2019 | 502 pages At our first Elders story workshop we were encouraged to come up with an idea for a story. I thought it might be interesting to tell a story from the perspective of a tree. We have several...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jul 22, 2019 | Book Reviews
Harriet & Corbin meet at Kitsilano Beach by Kathryn Patterson Amazon Digital Services LLC | 2019 | 32 pages In the midst of our ongoing Elder efforts to promote the art of constructive conversation on emotional and divisive issues such as climate change, along...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 23, 2019 | Advocacy, Book Reviews, Rules of Engagement
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua Penguin Random House | 2018 | 304 pages Amy Chua is probably best known through social media as the Tiger Mom following widespread publication of her 2011 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. More...
