Celebration and relief! I just finished a Research & Creation Grant application for the Canada Council for the Arts and sent it to Ottawa via Canada Post. I’m calling this project “Welcoming Whales”, a double meaning [one for each blowhole]?

We won’t find out whether the jurors on the committee like my proposal enough to give me money for it until July. But whales don’t wait until a grant comes through to show up. So my plan is to get out in April/May and sail the waves in the trusty Blue Parrot ship. It would be a dream come true to meet the humpback whales as they return to play and feed in the Salish Sea.

Until then it’s time to work on this website which has a working title of “the nature of women & girls” I’m sorting through photos, video clips interviews etc. that might be of interest to folks who want to deepen their own connection to the rest of the natural world.

In November of 2013 Terry http://amphibiographer.tv/ and I drove US Interstate Highway I 5, negotiating monsoon rains and torpedoing transport trucks, to deepen our nature connection by participating in a course given by Anna Breytenbach and Jon Young. “Animal Communication & Intuitive Tracking” opened the possibility of mind to mind sharing with other sentient beings and reading the life energy of a being while tracking. Both of these ancient indigenous arts invoked profound experiences in us that inspired this project. If you do not know their work you can find Anna at http://animalspirit.org/ and Jon at http://8shields.org/ They are incredible human beings and awesome mentors of humans of all ages and cultures.

Well, it’s expensive to get out in a boat, even an old sailboat for a few months so I’d better sign off and invent some means to do it.

until next time.