by suzukiwebmaster | Oct 23, 2019 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Lillian Ireland Our home the Earth is small, it’s smaller than you know From Argentina to Tanzania to Greece and Mexico. We are all one family and the Earth is our small home, Hey, what do you know – we all belong, so sing a family song. Sing of caring for...
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 | Aug 17, 2019 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Bob Worcester When I was 14 my parents moved the family out to Montana from the mid-west and I quickly became immersed in the stories of the old west. I learned about Charlie Russell the great western painter whose paintings of the frontier hung in almost every...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 18, 2019 | Intergenerational Story Project
By Kathryn Cholette I grew up in Burnaby, B.C. which was a wonderful place for a child. I remember picnicking for my 3rd birthday in 1951 in our back yard with a few little neighbourhood friends and, looking back I realize how “being outside” with kids (mostly with...
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 13, 2018 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Jim Park Part 1. The Road to Sky Blue Water Sometimes, if you’re lucky, a neighbour knows the way to paradise – and is willing to take you there. Our family never had a car; we relied on friends and relatives to take us on vacation. Way back in April of 1960, a...
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 10, 2018 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Kami Kanetsuka I fell in love with trees without knowing how sacred they are. Growing up in London, although not in the heart of nature, I was lucky enough to live close to one of the city’s crowning glories, Hampstead Heath — 800 acres of rambling woods with...
